Albert Einstein Quotations | Page 5

A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing.

There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

Einstein didn't speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped out the theory of relativity. BAYUM! Showed you guys.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

God Almighty does not throw dice.

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory.

I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.

It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.

There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.

The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.

It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close.

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Every age has its beautiful moments.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

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

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them.

It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.

Coincidences are God's way of staying anonymous.

The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.

People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicty of its premises is.

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.

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The question that drives me hazy is whether it is I or others who is crazy.

Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.

Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

A priori one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way... The kind of order created by Newton's theory of gravitation...is wholly different. Even if the axioms of the theory are proposed by man, the success of such a project presupposes a high degree of ordering of the objective world.... That is the "miracle" which is being constantly reinforced as our knowledge expands.

In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot!

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.

In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

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

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

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.

"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I".

[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth.

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

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.

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

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 want to Gods thoughts, the rest are details.

The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far.

Curiosity is its own reason.