Albert Einstein Quotes
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I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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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 only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
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When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
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God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
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I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...
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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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The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
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What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
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The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
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There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
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Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.
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I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
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We must learn to see the world anew.
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I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.
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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.