Albert Einstein Quotes
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The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
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If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
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Dancers are the athletes of God.
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.
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If you want different results, do not do the same things.
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There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe.
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The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.
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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
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Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
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The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.
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The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.
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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.
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We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.