Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?
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Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.
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I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.
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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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How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.
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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
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Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change.
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The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.
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Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.
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I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.
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The heart says yes, but the mind says no.
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I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
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It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.
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Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
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My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
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The gravity is the first thing which you don't think.
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Only if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.
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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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What we don't know is much more than what we know.
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The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.
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Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.