Albert Einstein Quotes
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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
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Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
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The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
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I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.
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No scientist thinks in formula.
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God always takes the simplest way.
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The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.
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I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
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A problem defined, is a problem half solved.
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Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
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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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Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
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The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.
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Reason is intuition's servant.
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You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.
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Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
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I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
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In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it.
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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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!