Albert Einstein Quotes
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The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
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The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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We must learn to see the world anew.
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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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The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
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I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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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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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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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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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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You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.
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One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.
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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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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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Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
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A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
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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.