Albert Einstein Quotes
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An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
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Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant.
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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
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Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.
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How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology?
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Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil.
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
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What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
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This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind - the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake - the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism - how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.
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God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
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Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
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How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking.
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The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
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Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings.
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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
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A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.
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When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.
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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.