Albert Einstein Quotes

One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.

The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.

Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up.

There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.

To me it is enough to wonder at the secrets

I want to know all God's thoughts.

If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

Thinking like we (always) have is what got us where we are. It is not going to get us where we are going.

The Universe is a friendly place.

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace.

Toreador pants make your feet look big too

... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

There is possibility in every difficulty.

Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.

What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.

Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.

Warfare cannot be humanized.

You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

You accept the historical Jesus?

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

The next world war will be fought with stones.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

Go out as far as you can go and start from there

To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

Gravity is a response to geometry.

What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.