Albert Einstein Quotes
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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.
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Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.
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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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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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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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I have just got a new theory of eternity.
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
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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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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
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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 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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I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
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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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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.
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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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Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.
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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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Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
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Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.