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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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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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
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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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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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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I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
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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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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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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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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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God always takes the simplest way.
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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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Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries — not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.
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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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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
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Reason is intuition's servant.
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Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
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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.