Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Quotes

• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

• The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

• When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

• The laws of gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.

• Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

• To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty...this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

• Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

• Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.

• The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

• I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

• The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

• As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it.

• But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

• You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...no we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

• If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.