Einstein Quotes

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

Curiosity is its own reason.

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.

When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.

As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.

No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

Life is like riding a bicycle. If you want to stay balanced you've got to keep moving forward.

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.

The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.