Albert Einstein Quotes
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We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
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Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.
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Time is what the clock says.
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Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.
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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.
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I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.
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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
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We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.
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Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.
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The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
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We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
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The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.
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We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.
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Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.
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Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.
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The environment is everything that isn't me.
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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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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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It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.
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There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!
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My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.
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My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.
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Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.
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Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.