Albert Einstein Quotes on World (40 Quotes)

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. The World as I See It, 1934

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success the United Nations or in the.

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward. The example of great and fine personalities is the only thing that can lead us to fine ideas and noble deeds. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi with the money bags of Carnegie The World as I See It.

I don't try to imagine a God it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, 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.

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

I am absolutely convinced that no amount of wealth in the world can help humanity move forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistably invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie.

I don't know what weapons will be used in world war three, but in world war four people will use sticks and stones.

We already know that the world is far more complex, and strange, and beautiful than we thought.

The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception,

For there is no secret and there is no defense there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognise our inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citi

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the worlddeserves.

Where 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.

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

Knowledge is limited but imagination encircles the world

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however, it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us.