Quotes from Albert Einstein

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

God is a scientist, not a magician.

All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

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

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

God always takes the simplest way.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.