Albert Einstein Quotes
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If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
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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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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women, who refuse military service.
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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 am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
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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.
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I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.
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One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.
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Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.
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How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.
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The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
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But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
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An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
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What I particularly admire in him is the firm stand he has taken, not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives very clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
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Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.
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It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
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I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but I admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.