Albert Einstein Quotes
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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I admit that thoughts influence the body.
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A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.
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I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.
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Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.
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You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.
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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
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While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility of goals and evaluations, the independent and fundamental definitions regarding goals and values remain beyond science's reach.
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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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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
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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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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
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If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.
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I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.
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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
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Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
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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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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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My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.
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It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.
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Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.
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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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It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.
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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.