Albert Einstein Quotes
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The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation. The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.
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When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
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We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
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I am neither a German citizen, nor do I believe in anything that can be described as a 'Jewish faith.' But I am a Jew and glad to belong to the Jewish people, though I do not regard it in any way as chosen.
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Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.
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Am I, or the others crazy?
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I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.
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I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.
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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
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The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.
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Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
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I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.
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You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
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Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.
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Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
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The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.
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In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.
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I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.
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That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss. All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.
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The next world war will be fought with stones.
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Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
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The last thing to collapse is the surface.
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I thought of that while riding my bicycle.
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I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.