« All Merely Quotes · Albert Einstein's Page
Merely Quotes by Albert Einstein
- It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces…
- The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part…
- I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
- But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
- Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.
- 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 quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains…
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means…
- The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such…
- The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates…
- The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
- Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.
- The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To…
- Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.
- How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the…
- Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one
More Merely Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice… — Carl von Clausewitz
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams
- The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that… — Cyrano de Bergerac