Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Of what is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should. In fact, life itself is a big miracle. There are so many things that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as… — 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
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study… — 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
The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. Do… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they… — 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