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[famous_quotes] Einstein Quotes
A human being is part of the whole, called by us the universe, a
part limited by time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest a kind
of optical delusion of his consciousness. The delusion is a kind of
prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free
ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man
would indexed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of
punishment and hope of reward after death.
All means prove but a blunt instrument, if they have not behind them
a living spirit. But if the longing for the achievement of the goal
is powerfully alive within us, then we shall not lack the strength
to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into
deeds.
All of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and
justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and
honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality.
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
(Letter to Max Born, 4 December 1926)
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
eighteen.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest in
all technical endeavours ... Never forget this in the midst of your
diagrams and equations.
Do not pride yourself on the few great men who, over the centuries,
have been born on your earth through no merit of yours. Reflect,
rather, on how you treated them at the time, and how you have
followed their teachings.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the
individual who can labor in freedom.
(Out of My Later Years, 1950)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which
differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people
are incapable of forming such opinions.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
(May 1921)
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned
my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, science for
him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to
civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command,
senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how
violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I
would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action!
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing
but an act of murder.
I am an absolute pacifist... It is an instinctive feeling. It is a
feeling that possesses me, because the murder of man is disgusting.
(28 August 1929)
I just got a new theory of eternity.
(Said after a long after-dinner speech)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x;
y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
(15 January 1950)
If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me
as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the
world. Should my theory prove untrue France will say that I am a
German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
(December 1929)
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
research, would it?
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
In the light, of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems
almost matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it
without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in
the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of
confidence, and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light
only those who have experienced it can understand it.
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the
ideal of service.
It was the experience of mystery even if mixed with fear that
engendered religion.
(Living Philosophies, 1931)
It 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.
Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every
man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of
tolerance in the entire population.
(Out of My Later Years, 1950)
Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the
human race.
Oh Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to
yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?
Once the validity of this mode of thought has been recognized. the
final result appears almost simple; any intelligent undergraduate
can understand them without much trouble, but the years of searching
in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the
intense desire and the alterations of confidence and misgiving,
until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are only
known to him who has experienced them.
(1933)
Only two things are limitless. The universe and human stupidity,
and we're not quite sure about the universe yet.
One misses the elementary reaction against injustice and for
justice that reaction which in the long run represents man's only
protection against a relapse into barbarism.
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our
age.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not,
however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In
our endeavour to understand reality we are sometimes like a man
trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the
face and the hands moving, even hears its ticking, but he has no way
of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of
the mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he
observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only
one which could explain his observation. He will never be able to
compare his picture with the real mechanism and he can not even
imagine the possibility of the meaning of such a comparison.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
(Science and Religion, Out of My Later Years, 1950)
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel
with their own hearts.
So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what
they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a
valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest
driving force behind scientific research.
(New York Times, 19 April, 1955)
The deep emotional conviction of the existence of a superior
reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe,
forms my idea of God.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its
limits.
The existence and validity of human rights are not written in the
stars.
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
fundamental emotion which stands as the cradle of true art and true
science.
Dreams, fantasy, imagination, knowledge, reality, understanding
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its
own reason for existing. One can not help but be in awe when he
contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous
structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a
little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is
the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and
science.
(Living Philosophies, 1931)
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything, save our
modes of thinking, and we thus drift towards unparalleled
catastrophes.
(24 May 1946)
The State is made for man, not man for the State.
(The World As I See It, 1934)
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have
done thus far creates problems that we cannot solved at the same
level at which we have created them.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of
course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
(Out of My Later Years, 1950)
What a person thinks on his own, without being stimulated by the
thoughts and experiences of other people, is even in the best case
rather paltry and monotonous.
What should be done to give power into the hands of capable and well-
meaning persons has so far resisted all efforts.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's
longer than any hour. That's relativity.
(New York Times, 19 April, 1955)
Whoever undertakes to set himself as judge in the field of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
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part limited by time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest a kind
of optical delusion of his consciousness. The delusion is a kind of
prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free
ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man
would indexed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of
punishment and hope of reward after death.
All means prove but a blunt instrument, if they have not behind them
a living spirit. But if the longing for the achievement of the goal
is powerfully alive within us, then we shall not lack the strength
to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into
deeds.
All of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and
justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and
honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality.
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
(Letter to Max Born, 4 December 1926)
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
eighteen.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest in
all technical endeavours ... Never forget this in the midst of your
diagrams and equations.
Do not pride yourself on the few great men who, over the centuries,
have been born on your earth through no merit of yours. Reflect,
rather, on how you treated them at the time, and how you have
followed their teachings.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the
individual who can labor in freedom.
(Out of My Later Years, 1950)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which
differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people
are incapable of forming such opinions.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
(May 1921)
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned
my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, science for
him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to
civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command,
senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how
violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I
would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action!
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing
but an act of murder.
I am an absolute pacifist... It is an instinctive feeling. It is a
feeling that possesses me, because the murder of man is disgusting.
(28 August 1929)
I just got a new theory of eternity.
(Said after a long after-dinner speech)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x;
y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
(15 January 1950)
If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me
as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the
world. Should my theory prove untrue France will say that I am a
German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
(December 1929)
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
research, would it?
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
In the light, of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems
almost matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it
without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in
the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of
confidence, and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light
only those who have experienced it can understand it.
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the
ideal of service.
It was the experience of mystery even if mixed with fear that
engendered religion.
(Living Philosophies, 1931)
It 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.
Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every
man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of
tolerance in the entire population.
(Out of My Later Years, 1950)
Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the
human race.
Oh Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to
yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?
Once the validity of this mode of thought has been recognized. the
final result appears almost simple; any intelligent undergraduate
can understand them without much trouble, but the years of searching
in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the
intense desire and the alterations of confidence and misgiving,
until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are only
known to him who has experienced them.
(1933)
Only two things are limitless. The universe and human stupidity,
and we're not quite sure about the universe yet.
One misses the elementary reaction against injustice and for
justice that reaction which in the long run represents man's only
protection against a relapse into barbarism.
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our
age.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not,
however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In
our endeavour to understand reality we are sometimes like a man
trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the
face and the hands moving, even hears its ticking, but he has no way
of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of
the mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he
observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only
one which could explain his observation. He will never be able to
compare his picture with the real mechanism and he can not even
imagine the possibility of the meaning of such a comparison.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
(Science and Religion, Out of My Later Years, 1950)
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel
with their own hearts.
So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what
they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a
valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest
driving force behind scientific research.
(New York Times, 19 April, 1955)
The deep emotional conviction of the existence of a superior
reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe,
forms my idea of God.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its
limits.
The existence and validity of human rights are not written in the
stars.
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
fundamental emotion which stands as the cradle of true art and true
science.
Dreams, fantasy, imagination, knowledge, reality, understanding
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its
own reason for existing. One can not help but be in awe when he
contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous
structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a
little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is
the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and
science.
(Living Philosophies, 1931)
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything, save our
modes of thinking, and we thus drift towards unparalleled
catastrophes.
(24 May 1946)
The State is made for man, not man for the State.
(The World As I See It, 1934)
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have
done thus far creates problems that we cannot solved at the same
level at which we have created them.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of
course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
(Out of My Later Years, 1950)
What a person thinks on his own, without being stimulated by the
thoughts and experiences of other people, is even in the best case
rather paltry and monotonous.
What should be done to give power into the hands of capable and well-
meaning persons has so far resisted all efforts.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's
longer than any hour. That's relativity.
(New York Times, 19 April, 1955)
Whoever undertakes to set himself as judge in the field of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
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