Albert Einstein Quotes
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Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
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The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game.
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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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Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!
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About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.
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Gravity is a response to geometry.
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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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Nationalism is the measels of mankind.
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The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out.
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In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.
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The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
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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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You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.
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Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:"The question is much too difficult for me".
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
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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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Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
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If I had it life to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.
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Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
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We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.
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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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The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
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Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.