Albert Einstein Quotes
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Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.
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If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.
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I do not think that religion is the most important element. We are held together rather by a body of tradition, handed down from father to son, which the child imbibes with his mother's milk. The atmosphere of our infancy predetermines our idiosyncrasies and predilections.
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Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust.
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
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Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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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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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
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If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
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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 armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.
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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.
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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
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Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.
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It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.