Einstein Quotes
I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.
I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.
The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.
Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.
Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort
I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.
It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them.
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.
Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.
In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.
"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I".
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.
Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.
You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.
The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.
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[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.
It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.
I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.
If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.
Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?
One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.
Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.
O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.
Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)