Quotes from Albert Einstein

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been.

We are here for the sake of others

Order is needed by the ignorant but it takes a genius to master chaos.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

As long as armies exist, any serious quarrel will lead to war.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Logic will get you from point A to point B. Imagination and hard work will take you everywhere else.

You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. { Remark to scientist Herman Francis Mark }

You don't have to understand the world. You just have to find your own way around in it.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Concern for man himself and his fate must always constitute the chief objective of all technological endeavors...in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The field is the sole governing agency of the particle

Due cose sono infinite: l'universo e la stupidità umana, ma riguardo l'universo ho ancora dei dubbi.

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.

That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties.

I believe that better times are coming.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.