Albert Einstein Moral Quotations

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.

Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.