Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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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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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
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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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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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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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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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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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When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
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No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create 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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Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
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Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust.
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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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When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.
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More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.
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I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.
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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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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.
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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
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To think with fear of the end of one's life is pretty general with human beings. It is one of the means nature uses to conserve the life of the species. Approached rationally that fear is the most unjustified of all fears, for there is no risk of any accidents to one who is dead or not yet born. In short, the fear is stupid but it cannot be helped.