Albert Einstein Quotes
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Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
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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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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
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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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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
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The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.
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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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Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.
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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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A problem defined, is a problem half solved.
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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
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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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It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
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God always takes the simplest way.
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Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
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The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
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The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.
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You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
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Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
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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?