Quotes from Albert Einstein
“Any intelligent fool can make
things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and
a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
“Imagination is more important than
knowledge.”
“Gravitation is not responsible for
people falling in love.”
“I want to know God’s thoughts; the
rest are details.”
“The hardest thing in the world to
understand is the income tax.”
“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”
“The only real valuable thing is
intuition.”
“A person starts to live when he can
live outside himself.”
“I am convinced that He (God) does
not play dice.”
“God is subtle but he is not
malicious.”
“Weakness of attitude becomes
weakness of character.”
“I never think of the future. It
comes soon enough.”
“The eternal mystery of the world is
its comprehensibility.”
“Sometimes one pays most for the
things one gets for nothing.”
“Science without religion is lame.
Religion without science is blind.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.”
“Great spirits have often
encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”
“Everything should be made as simple
as possible, but not simpler.”
“Common sense is the collection of
prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
“Science is a wonderful thing if one
does not have to earn one’s living at it.”
“The secret to creativity is knowing
how to hide your sources.”
“The only thing that interferes with
my learning is my education.”
“God does not care about our
mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”
“The whole of science is nothing
more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
“Technological progress is like an
axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It
can only be achieved by understanding.”
“The most incomprehensible thing
about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
“We can’t solve problems by using
the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
“Education is what remains after one
has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
“The important thing is not to stop
questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“Do not worry about your
difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
“Equations are more important to me,
because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for
eternity.”
“If A is a success in life, then A
equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth
shut.”
“Two things are infinite: the
universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”
“As far as the laws of mathematics
refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not
refer to reality.”
“Whoever undertakes to set himself
up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the
gods.”
“I know not with what weapons World
War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and
stones.”
“In order to form an immaculate
member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”
“The fear of death is the most
unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s
dead.”
“Too many of us look upon Americans
as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated
thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
“Heroism on command, senseless
violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism —
how passionately I hate them!”
“No, this trick won’t work…How on
earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so
important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
“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.”
“Yes, we have to divide up our time
like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are
far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A
mathematical equation stands forever.”
“The release of atom power has
changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies
in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a
watchmaker.”
“Great spirits have always found
violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a
man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and
courageously uses his intelligence.”
“The most beautiful thing we can
experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and
stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
“A man’s ethical behavior should be
based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis
is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by
fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
“The further the spiritual evolution
of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine
religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and
blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”
“Now he has departed from this strange
world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in
physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a
stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind
of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing
in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same
way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is
that there is no cat.”
“One had to cram all this stuff into
one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had
such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I
found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an
entire year.”
“…one of the strongest motives that
lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful
crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting
desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into
the world of objective perception and thought.”
“He who joyfully marches to music
rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain
by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace
to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how
violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be
torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that
killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
“A human being is a part of a whole,
called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences
himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind
of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for
us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons
nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty.”
“Not everything that counts can be
counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” (Sign hanging in
Einstein’s office at Princeton)
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