Quotes from Albert Einstein

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.