Quotes from Albert Einstein

Wenn die Menschen nur über das sprächen, was sie begreifen, dann würde es sehr still auf der Welt sein

No intento imaginar un Dios personal; es suficiente sentir un gran respeto hacia la estructura del mundo, en tanto que permite que nuestros inadecuados sentidos lo aprecien.

In gravitational fields there are no such things as rigid bodies with Euclidean properties; thus the fictitious rigid body of reference is of no avail in general relativity.

Les américains sont le seul peuple a être passé directement de la barbarie à la décadence sans passer par ce que l'on nomme ailleurs : Civilisation !

En los momentos de crisis, solo la imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.

Jamais considere seus estudos como uma obrigação, mas como uma oportunidade invejável para aprender a conhecer a influência libertadora da beleza do reino do espírito, para seu próprio prazer pessoal e para proveito da comunidade à qual seu futuro trabalho pertencer.

Planung ersetzt Zufall durch Irrtum.

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

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people

You will renounce all relations with me. You will make my meals and tidy my house. You are my servant and nothing more. [rules for his first wife Mileva Maric and his second wife Elsa Einstein]

Los sistemas autocráticos y opresivos degeneran muy pronto. Pues la violencia atrae a individuos de escasa moral y es ley de vida que a tiranos geniales sucedan verdaderos canallas.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Sin personalidades creativas que piensen por sí mismas es impensable el desarrollo de la comunidad.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Ideas come from God.

the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

with fame I become more, and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon

Nulla darà la possibilità di sopravvivenza sulla terra quanto l'evoluzione verso una dieta vegetariana

Triste época la nuestra! Es más fácil desintegrar un átomo que un prejuicio.

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

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.