Albert Einstein Quotes
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There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.
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As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.
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There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!
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In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.
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America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.
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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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Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
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I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
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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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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
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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.
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The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.
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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.
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Play is the highest from of research.
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May they not forget to keep pure the great heritage that puts them ahead of the West: the artistic configuration of life, the simplicity and modesty of personal needs, and the purity and serenity of the Japanese soul.
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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
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The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.
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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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Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible - and no simpler.
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We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking.
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Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.
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The field is the sole influence of the particle.