Quotes by Albert Einstein

Nothing happens until something moves.

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced

The state was made for man, not man for state.

A mans value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Ego=1/Knowledge More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.