Einstein Quotes
Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.
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.
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.
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.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.
Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected.
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.
Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.
I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
