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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The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
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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 American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
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I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
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Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
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Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.
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There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!
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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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The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
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Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:"The question is much too difficult for me".
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Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.
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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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How do I work? I grope.
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Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.
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Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.
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I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.
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Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
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Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.
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The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
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The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost; one feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone, no longer in hope or fear, only observing.
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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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The gravity is the first thing which you don't think.