Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.
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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
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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.
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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.
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I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.
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I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.
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I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.
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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.
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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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As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.
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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.
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The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
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If we think of the field as being removed, there is no 'space' which remains, since space does not have an independent existence.
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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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Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking.
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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 brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.
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I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.
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Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
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... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.
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The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.
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One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.
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Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.