“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”
-- Albert Einstein
“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”
-- Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it
seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the
fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving
after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that
goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
-- Albert Einstein
Raffiniert ist der Herrgott aber boshaft ist er nicht.
-- Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit
who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our
frail and feeble mind.
-- Albert Einstein
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.
-- Albert Einstein
The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events, the firmer
becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered
regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of
human nor the rule of divine will exists as an independent cause of natural
events. To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural
events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this
doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge
has not yet been able to set foot.
But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives
of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which
is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but only in the dark, will
of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human
progress. In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion
must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is,
give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast
powers in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail
themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the
True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more
difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.
- Albert Einstein
You will never amount to much.
-- Munich Schoolmaster, to Albert Einstein, age 10
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
-- Albert Einstein
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably
by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for
the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot
be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime
in this country is closely connected with this.
-- Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The
terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
-- Albert Einstein
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.
-- Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education,
and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a
poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward
after death.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein's last words will never be known. He spoke them in German, and the attending nurse did not speak German.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
-- Albert Einstein
Logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; All
knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it, propositions
arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty of reality.
-- Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
-- Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
-- Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and science.
-- Albert Einstein, Contribution, Living Philosophies (1949)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
God doesn't play dice.
-- Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is
that it is comprehensible.
-- ALBERT EINSTEIN