Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.
Albert EinsteinNo one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.
Albert EinsteinThe world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.
Albert EinsteinAs for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.
Albert EinsteinThe armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
Albert EinsteinBetterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
Albert EinsteinWe should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert EinsteinOur 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.
Albert EinsteinLearn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert EinsteinEven if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.
Albert EinsteinThe Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
Albert EinsteinWhat really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
Albert EinsteinThe thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
Albert EinsteinMen like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.
Albert EinsteinMy passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.
Albert EinsteinQuantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.
Albert EinsteinI'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.
Albert EinsteinChildren don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
Albert EinsteinHe who joyfully marches to music 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 fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert EinsteinThe world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
Albert EinsteinYou are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified... It seems hard to sneak a look at God's cards. But that He plays dice and uses 'telepathic' methods... is something that I cannot believe for a single moment.
Albert EinsteinNo one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake
Albert Einsteinthe scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.
Albert EinsteinTo one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.
Albert EinsteinMan like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.
Albert EinsteinI believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
Albert EinsteinWomen always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
Albert EinsteinI 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.
Albert EinsteinA permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.
Albert Einstein