Einstein Quotes

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

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

Where there is love, there is no imposition.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

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

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

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

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

The thing is, not to stop questioning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

My mind is my laboratory.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

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.