Albert Einstein Quotes
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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 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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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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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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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The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.
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Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
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Reason is intuition's servant.
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A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
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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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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.
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Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
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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.
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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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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.
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I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.
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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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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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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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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.