Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.
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Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.
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Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.
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The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
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Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
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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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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
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One picture is worth a thousand words.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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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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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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Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.
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Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
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There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
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No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.