Albert Einstein Quotes
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You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
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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 man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
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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.
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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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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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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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Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
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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 Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
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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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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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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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I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
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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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God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit... not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in what we believe is evil.
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Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.
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How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
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The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
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The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.
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Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.