Albert Einstein Quotes
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.
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It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
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If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
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One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
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Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.
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We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.
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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
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The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
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The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in any war, for any reason or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect.
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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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We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism.
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Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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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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When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
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I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
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No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.
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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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I do not need any promise of eternity to be happy. My eternity is now. I have only one interest: to fulfill my purpose here where I am. This purpose is not given me by my parents or my surroundings. It is induced by some unknown factors. These factors make me a part of eternity.