Albert Einstein Quotes
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One picture is worth a thousand words.
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There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
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Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
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God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.
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Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.
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Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.
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The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
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Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.
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I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
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No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
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The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
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No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
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When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
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Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.
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Even a fool is wise after an event.
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I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.