You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed… — 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
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than… — 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
It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to… — 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
Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian.… — 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
