Albert Einstein Quotes
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Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
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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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Not all that counts, can be counted.
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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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But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
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Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
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To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
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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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The best design is the simplest one that works.
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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
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I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
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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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Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
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Nationalism is the measels of mankind.
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The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know.
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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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There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: the world as a unity dependent on humanity; the world as a reality independent of the human factor.
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Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.
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To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.
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Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.