Albert Einstein
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Albert EinsteinGreat 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.
Albert EinsteinThe important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert EinsteinImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinNot everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Albert EinsteinIt would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
Albert EinsteinI live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinThe aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
Albert EinsteinBut the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.
Albert EinsteinI cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
Albert EinsteinI never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert EinsteinAn empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
Albert EinsteinSo long as there are men there will be wars.
Albert EinsteinThe 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.
Albert EinsteinYou 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.
Albert EinsteinWhen I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.
Albert EinsteinNature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
Albert EinsteinIf we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert EinsteinTwo things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.
Albert EinsteinWisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it.
Albert EinsteinBut 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.
Albert EinsteinWhere the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science
Albert EinsteinNothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
Albert EinsteinIt is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Albert EinsteinTo me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Albert Einstein
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