Albert Einstein Quotes
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It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
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Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.
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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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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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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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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.
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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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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 always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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The stupid are invincible.
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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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Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
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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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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
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No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.
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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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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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One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.
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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 am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.