Top 1964 Quotes & Sayings by Albert Einstein - Page 30

We must learn to see the world anew.

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

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

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

The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity

To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

The world is a dangerous place to live

No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

Intelligence and genius

But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

Go out as far as you can go and start from there

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.

Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.

My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits.

To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.

I want to Gods thoughts, the rest are details.

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.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip.

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

Gravity is a response to geometry.

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.

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

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.

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 the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories.

There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.