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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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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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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Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
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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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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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The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.
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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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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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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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The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
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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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In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.
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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women, who refuse military service.
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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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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 that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.
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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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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.