Albert Einstein Quotes
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.
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A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.
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Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
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Nothing happens unless something moves.
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It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.
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Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
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No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
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Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
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The question that drives me hazy is whether it is I or others who is crazy.
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I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.
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Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
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I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
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There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.
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Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
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Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.
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I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
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You never fail until you stop trying.
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.
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The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
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Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.
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The gravity is the first thing which you don't think
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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.
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It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.
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Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
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For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
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If you do the same thing over and over again you cannot ever expect a different outcome.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
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