Albert Einstein Quotes
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The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
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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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Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
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God is a scientist, not a magician.
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The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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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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Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.
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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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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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How do I work? I grope.
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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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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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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 repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
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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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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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During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.
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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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Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.
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Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip.
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If I had it life to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
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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.
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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.