Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
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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 armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
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Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.
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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 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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I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
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There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
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The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
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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 shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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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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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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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
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One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good.
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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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How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.
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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust.