Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.
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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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Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
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The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.
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Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.
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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.
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.
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Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.
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Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.
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Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
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We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.
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Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
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The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves.
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I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?
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In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.
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You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
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Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
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The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
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We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.