Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.
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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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Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.
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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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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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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.
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An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.
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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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O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?
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There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.
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The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
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Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.
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The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
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The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state.
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One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.
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The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
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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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My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
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A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.
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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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I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.