Quotes by Albert Einstein

“Theres no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”

“Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric mans discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms”

“All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”

“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”

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

“The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”

“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”

“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”

“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Love is a better master than duty.

No, this trick wont work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling mans life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. (first published 1937)]