Albert Einstein Quotes
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Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
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Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
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The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.
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Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consideration that he has for others.
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Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
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In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.
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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
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My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
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We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
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The gravity is the first thing which you don't think.
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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 road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
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The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
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You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
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In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.
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The longing to behold this pre-established harmony of phenomena and theoretical principles, is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ...
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There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.
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You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.
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What a betrayal of man's dignity. He uses the highest gift, his mind, only ten percent, and his emotions and instincts ninety percent.