Albert Einstein Quotes
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Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
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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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One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.
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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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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
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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.
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The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
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One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
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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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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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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
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I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
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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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The sole function of education... to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
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Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
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The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.