Albert Einstein Quotes
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To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.
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Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.
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For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.
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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
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Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
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Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
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Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
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Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.
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It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.
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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
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Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.
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The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.
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Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
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I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.
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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
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For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.
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Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.
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There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
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The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
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If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.