Quotes from Albert Einstein

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

Tanda kecerdasan sejati bukanlah pengetahuan tapi imajinasi.

It is the theory which decides what can be observed

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Spooky action at a distance.

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.

with every action theres an equal opposite reaction. With every problem, there's a solution: just a matter of taking action.

Still there are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable: life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only being.

Look to the stars and from them learn.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music ... I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.

There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. - Albert Einstein, letter of February 5, 1921

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.