Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
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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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A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.
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If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
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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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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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Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
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Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.
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To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
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If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
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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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The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
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The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.
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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.
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Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
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Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.