Albert Einstein Quotes
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As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.
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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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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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The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
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This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.
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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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I'm no more intelligent than the next guy. I'm just more curious.
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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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A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.
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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason.
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The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.
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Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
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A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation.
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But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.
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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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I always found I was in the best of company, alone.
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The only race I know is the human one.
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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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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
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But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior.
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If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.
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History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.