Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
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I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
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I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.
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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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You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
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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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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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Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
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Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
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If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
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Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.
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The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.
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In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity .
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Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.
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If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.
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My deep religiosity found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?
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I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.
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All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.
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What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.