Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles and not be forced to state them a priori.
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The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.
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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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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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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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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God always takes the simplest way.
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Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.
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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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A problem defined, is a problem half solved.
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I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew.
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Reason is intuition's servant.
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Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.
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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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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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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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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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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
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You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
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I now see the necessity of a beginning.