Albert Einstein Quotes
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Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as 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.
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Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.
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We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.
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Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
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If quantum theory is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
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I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.
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The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
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The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.
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Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.
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A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
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Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.
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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
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Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.