Quotes from Albert Einstein

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime

Reality i merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater

The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

"There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom"

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.