Albert Einstein Quotes
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No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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Give back to the world at least what you've received.
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God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.
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On quantum theory I use up more brain grease than on relativity.
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Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.
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The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
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You must be aware that most men, and also not only a few women, are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
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A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket - to hold all of my mistakes.
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In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.
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One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.
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External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.
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There is a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.
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The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
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I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
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I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.
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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
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The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.
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Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.
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Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success the United Nations or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.
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The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.
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Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.