Albert Einstein Quotes (575 Quotes)


    The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

    In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

    It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.


    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.


    The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

    You can't solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created it.

    It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

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

    There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

    I dont know the weapons that will used in the Third Great War, but in the Forth Great War men will kill each other with stones and wood clubs.

    When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.


    I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

    To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

    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.

    Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

    Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

    I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.


    I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

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

    I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

    Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

    It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

    There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

    Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

    I never teach my pupils I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

    Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

    The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

    The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fieldsfor society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

    It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

    In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

    Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit foryour own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.


    Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all

    I want to know God's thoughts.... the rest are details.

    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,

    We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the br

    If A equals success, then the formula is A X Y Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

    We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

    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

    He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once.

    Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

    There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

    Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

    There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

    All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

    Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

    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.


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