Albert Einstein Quotes
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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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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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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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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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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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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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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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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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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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You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
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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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Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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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 may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
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Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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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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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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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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I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
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I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it.