Top 1964 Quotes & Sayings by Albert Einstein - Page 3
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
God does not play dice.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
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.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
God always takes the simplest way.
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
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