Albert Einstein Quotes

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• I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a…
• I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to…
• ... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.
• One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as…
• The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is…
• If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer:…
• It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to…
• My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony…
• Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious . I want…
• That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has…
• No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
• Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
• The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and…
• Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently…
• There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are…
• A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of…
• I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter,…
• Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity.
• The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as…
• The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

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