Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 2

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)
Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.
Albert Einstein
Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.
Albert Einstein
There is no substitute for hard work.
Albert Einstein
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
Albert Einstein
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.
Albert Einstein
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Albert Einstein
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein
For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
Albert Einstein
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
Albert Einstein
Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the 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. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.
Albert Einstein
Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers’ goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before.
Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
Racism is a disease of white people
Albert Einstein
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
Albert Einstein
Ego=1/Knowledge" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.
Albert Einstein
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
Albert Einstein
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
Albert Einstein
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.
Albert Einstein
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein
PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.
Albert Einstein
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
Albert Einstein
Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.
Albert Einstein
A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
Albert Einstein
The state was made for man, not man for state.
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
Albert Einstein
Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.
Albert Einstein
The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.
Albert Einstein
Nothing happens until something moves.
Albert Einstein
Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude that has never again left me.- Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes, edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp
Albert Einstein
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
Albert Einstein
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters
Albert Einstein
True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
Albert Einstein
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein
Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy
Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein
We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them
Albert Einstein
The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases,coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value .I would hesitate to repeat them,were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten,especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
Albert Einstein
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Albert Einstein
The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein