Quotes from Albert Einstein

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

I see my life in terms of music.

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.