Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Interpretation
Not everything that is important can be measured, and not everything that is measurable is important.
This quote by Albert Einstein highlights the distinction between quantitative measures and qualitative significance. It suggests that while we can count many things, such as wealth or grades, they do not always reflect true value or importance in life. Conversely, meaningful aspects such as love, compassion, and creativity may not be easily quantifiable, yet they are essential to our existence and should not be overlooked.
In practice
In a graduation speech to emphasize the value of experiences over grades.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now.
I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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