Albert Einstein Quotes
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If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
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I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.
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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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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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Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
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How do I work? I grope.
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If I had it life to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.
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As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies.
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Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.
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I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
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Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
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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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Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
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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 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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Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit. That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.
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Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
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The scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.
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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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The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
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God is a scientist, not a magician.
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In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.
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It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.