Albert Einstein Quotes
-
Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking.
-
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
-
Free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual. Are we not all children of one father, as it is said in religious language?
-
I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.
-
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
-
The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.
-
God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.
-
A true genius admits that he knows nothing.
-
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.
-
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.
-
I always found I was in the best of company, alone.
-
I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.
-
The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage.
-
If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.
-
The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
-
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
-
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.
-
A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.
-
It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.
-
I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
-
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind.
-
The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.
-
Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.
-
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.