Albert Einstein Quotes
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Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
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A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
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Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
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Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.
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The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.
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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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If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.
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Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
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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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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected.
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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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The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
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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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No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
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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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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.