Albert Einstein Quotes
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I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
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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 always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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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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You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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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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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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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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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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The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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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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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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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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One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.
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Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
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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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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
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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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Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.