In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to… — 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
The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.” — 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
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
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking… — 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