Albert Einstein Quotes
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
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Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
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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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That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
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The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
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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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When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.
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To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.
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Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.
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Live your life... as though everything is a miracle.
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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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Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.
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I came- though the child of entirely irreligious Jewish parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.
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The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
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I get the most joy in life out of music.
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Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.
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The Universe is a friendly place.
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The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.
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Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.
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I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.
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I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.
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Never before have I lived through a storm like the one this night. … The sea has a look of indescribable grandeur, especially when the sun falls on it. One feels as if one is dissolved and merged into Nature. Even more than usual, one feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.