Albert Einstein Quotes
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I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
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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 have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
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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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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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The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
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You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.
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We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.
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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 was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.
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The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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The creative principle of science resides in mathematics.
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To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?
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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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If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.
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All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.
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Intelligence and genius.
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
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The Universe is a friendly place.
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Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.
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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.
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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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Dear Habicht, Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?