Quotes from Albert Einstein

The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.

Non possiamo risolvere i problemi con lo stesso tipo di pensiero che abbiamo usato quando li abbiamo creati.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.

If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else- unless it is an enemy

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.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

I cannot conceive of a great scientist without this profound faith: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.