Albert Einstein Quotes
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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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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Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
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When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
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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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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.
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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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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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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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Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust.
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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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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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More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.
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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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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
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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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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.
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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.
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The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
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I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.