Albert Einstein Quotes
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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 am very smart. But not as strong-hearted as all the workers on earth for he toils endlessly and does it all to feed his family while I do it merely for solving an impossible puzzle.
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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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Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!
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Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.
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Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.
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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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The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
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If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.
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Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
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Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
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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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New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.
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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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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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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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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
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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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The heart says yes, but the mind says no.
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Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.
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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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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.