Albert Einstein Quotes

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.

Where there is love, there is no imposition.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

The thing is, not to stop questioning.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing.

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Information is not knowledge.

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.

I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

What you can't imagine, you can't discover.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

My mind is my laboratory.