Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.
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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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Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.
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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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Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
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You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.
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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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I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.
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But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.
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I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.
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Go out as far as you can go and start from there.
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A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.
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A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.
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We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking.
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The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.
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The next world war will be fought with stones.
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We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.
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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
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Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
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In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.
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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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Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.