Albert Einstein Quotes
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
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Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.
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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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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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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
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Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.
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My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.
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The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.
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It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
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Wait a minute! I am not a mystic. Trying to find out the laws of nature has nothing to do with mysticism, though in the face of creation I feel very humble. It is as if a spirit is manifest infinitely superior to man's spirit. Through my pursuit in science I have known cosmic religious feelings. But I don't care to be called a mystic.
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.
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A problem defined, is a problem half solved.
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Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.
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You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
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Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
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God always takes the simplest way.
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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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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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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.