Quotes from Albert Einstein

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

A problem can't be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.

I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

live as if you were to die tommorow. dream as if you were to live forever

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion.