Albert Einstein Quotes
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I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.
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Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
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Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.
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On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.
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How do I work? I grope.
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
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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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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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That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty.
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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
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The gravity is the first thing which you don't think.
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You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.
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Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.
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I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.
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Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. Albert Einstein
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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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I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
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I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
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I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.
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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.
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The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.