Albert Einstein Quotes
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I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.
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One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.
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Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant.
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If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.
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It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
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The place of the expert is on tap not on top.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.
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Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
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Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
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He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
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I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!
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Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
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Imagination is greater than knowledge.
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We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
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Failure is success in progress.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.
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Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
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I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew.
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Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.
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The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
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Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.