Albert Einstein Quotes
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A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.
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Time flies when you are having fun.
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
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One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.
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An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.
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It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.
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What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.
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Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis.
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My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
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I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
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To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.
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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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In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
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Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
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You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified...
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If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.
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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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While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.
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The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.
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The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.
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That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.
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My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.