Quotes by Albert Einstein

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
 
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
 
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
 
Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.
 
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
 
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
 
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
 
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
 
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
 
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem in my opinion to characterize our age.
 
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
 
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
 
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
 
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
 
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
 
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.
 
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
 
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
 
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority.
 
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
 
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