Albert Einstein Quotes
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No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
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The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
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If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.
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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
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Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
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My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.
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Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
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That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics.
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I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful.
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Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.
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One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.
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Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.