Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
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Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
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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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You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
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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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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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Live your life... as though everything is a miracle.
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Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
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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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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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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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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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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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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 ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
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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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If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
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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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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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Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.
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Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.
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Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.