Albert Einstein Quotes

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.

On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking...no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth.

The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

I live my daydreams in music.

I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.

It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.

No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.

Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

What you can't imagine, you can't discover.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

Those who staying with the wrong reward,(eg. stay in comfort zone, etc.), long enough will get problem.

Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.