Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
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What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.
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Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.
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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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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
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I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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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 economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women, who refuse military service.
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Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.
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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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Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.
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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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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.