Albert Einstein Quotes

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.

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.

If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?".

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

My mind is my laboratory.

The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

Our lives will be measured by what we do for others

The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

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.

Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.

The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for this delicate plant needs freedom no less than stimulation.

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

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.

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.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments