Quote: If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Imagination is more important than knowledge Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: On the big Bang theory: For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: love to travel, But hate to arrive Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I never think of the future - it comes soon enough Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: MacMillan has this particular quote simply as God doesn't play dice. and notes that it is often quoted as doesn't play dice with the universe Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: So long as there are men there will be wars. So long as there are men there will be wars. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: No, this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: God is subtle but he is not malicious. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack & ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing & searching can be promoted by means of coercion & a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualisation. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large, scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: When the solution is simple, God is answering. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.... Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations. If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. ... it is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any otherway. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] My religiosity consists in a humble admiratation of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The only source of knowledge is experience. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into it's international affairs, which without the pressure of fear, it would not do. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the growing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual? Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family as bearer of tradition and education has become weakened.The continuance and health of human society is therefore in a still higher degree dependent on school than formally. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: 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. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continuously threatened with burial by the shifting sands. The hands of science must ever be at work in order that the marble column continue everlastingly to shine in the sun. To those serving hands mine also belong. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Strange is our Situation Here Upon Earth. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The faster you go, the shorter you are. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity ..... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself. Author: Albert Einstein