Albert Einstein Quotes
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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
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I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
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Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought.
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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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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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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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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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The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
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I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions, and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
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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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Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.
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The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
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Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
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It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification.
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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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It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.
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What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
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Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.
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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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Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
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You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.
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I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.