Albert Einstein Quotes
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet
All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.
Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.
I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.
