Albert Einstein Quotes
-
I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.
-
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
-
To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
-
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
-
The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.
-
Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.
-
The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
-
Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
-
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.
-
Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
-
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.
-
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
-
Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil.
-
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.
-
A problem defined, is a problem half solved.
-
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?
-
Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
-
For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.