Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!
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You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.
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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
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Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
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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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... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.
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It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.
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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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Not all that counts, can be counted.
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It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.
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When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
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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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The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.
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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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Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
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The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
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As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".
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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
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You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
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The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.
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Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.