Albert Einstein Quotes
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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 impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.
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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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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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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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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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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
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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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God always takes the simplest way.
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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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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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Reason is intuition's servant.
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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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Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
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It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
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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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I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
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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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The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.
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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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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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God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.