Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
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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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If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.
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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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Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.
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If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?
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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.
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It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.
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Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.
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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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Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.
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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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A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred then leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it.
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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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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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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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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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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'm no more intelligent than the next guy. I'm just more curious.
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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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The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.
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When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.