My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
