Albert Einstein Quotes
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Intelligence and genius.
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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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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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Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.
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New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
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Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.
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The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
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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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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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I get the most joy in life out of music.
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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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Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
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In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.
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...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions.
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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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Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?
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Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.
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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Niels Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.
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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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Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.
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Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.