Albert Einstein Quotes
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We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
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A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
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The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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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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If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.
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The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.
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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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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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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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Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.
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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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Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
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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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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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A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.
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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
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I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
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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.