Quotes from Albert Einstein

I am ceaselessly occupied with the question of the constitution of radiation … This quantum question is so incredibly important and difficult that everyone should busy himself on it.

What a person does on his own, without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of others, is even in the best of cases rather paltry and monotonous.

As a child I received instruction in both the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.

El Estado es para los hombres y no los hombres para el Estado. Como deber primero del Estado veo la protección del individuo, así como ofrecerle la posibilidad de desarrollar una personalidad creativa.

Se sapessimo (esattamente) quel che stiamo facendo, non si chiamerebbe ricerca.

Science without epistemology is – insofar as it is thinkable at all – primitive and muddled.

La guerre est la chose la plus méprisable. Je préférerais me laisser assassiner que de participer à cette ignominie.

Todo hombre de buena voluntad debe intentar, valerosamente, en su medida y en su ambienta, llevar esta doctrina del hombre perfecto a la práctica. Si lo consigue sin que lo repudien o prohíban sus contemporáneos, tiene derecho a sentirse satisfecho de sí mismo y de su sociedad.

Space-time is not necessarily something to which one can ascribe a separate existence, independently of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way the concept empty space loses its meaning.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy, am I or are the others crazy?

La primacía de los tontos es insuperable y está garantizada para todas las épocas. El terror de esta tiranía se mitiga por su ineficiencia y sus consecuencias.

Je ne veux pas et Je ne peux pas concevoir un être qui survivrait à la mort de son corps.

and I think (like you, by the way) that theory cannot be fabricated out of the results of observation, but that it can only be invented. [Letter to Karl Popper; 11 Sep 1939]

Peu d'être sont capables d'exprimer posément une opinion différente des préjugés de leur milieu. La plupart des êtres sont même incapables d'arriver à formuler une.

Celui qui ressent sa vie et celle d'autres comme dénuées de sens est fondamentalement malheureux puisqu'il n'a aucune raison de vivre.

Aucun destin ne justifierait une quelconque exaltation de quiconque

The most beatiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.

Logik bringt dich von A nach B, deine Vorstellungskraft bringt dich überall hin.

An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour.

Random quotes don't constitute an argument.

Tutto è energia e questo è tutto quello che esiste. Sintonizzati alla frequenza della realtà che desideri e non potrai fare a meno di ottenere quella realtà. Non c'è altra via. Questa non è Filosofia, questa è Fisica.

It is a wonderful feeling to recognize the unifying features of a complex of phenomena which present themselves as quite unconnected to the direct experience of the senses.

learn from YESTERDAY, live for TODAY, hope for TOMORROW, The important thing is non stop to QUESTIONING.

Hours before his death in 1955 from a ruptured abdominal aortic ayeurysm, Albert Einstein's doctors proposed trying a new and unproven surgery as a final option for extending his life. Einstein refused. I have done my share, he said. It is time to go. I will do it elegantly.