Quotes from Albert Einstein

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

I do not believe there is a way in which this deeply entrenched evil can be quickly healed. But until this goal is reached there is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

Everything is energy.

The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, "the Sun is at rest and the Earth moves," or "the Sun moves and the Earth is at rest," would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

four-fifths of the words attributed to me are things I never said, and would not agree with. If your words cannot stand on their own, adding my name won't make them less flimsy

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

Svako je genijalac. Me?utim ako prosu?uješ ribu na osnovu njene sposobnosti da se penje uz drvo ona ?e ceo život provesti u ube?enju da je glupa.

One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes

There can never be complete agreement on international control and the administration of atomic energy or on general disarmament until there is a modification of the traditional concept of national sovereignty. For as long as atomic energy and armaments are considered a vital part of national security no nation will give more than lip service to international treaties.

It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy

Sólo hay dos cosas infinitas: el universo y la estupidez del hombre.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

El nacionalismo es una enfermedad infantil. Es el sarampion de la humanidad.

I can calculate everything even the velocity of light But Cannot calculate the Hate of people behind their Smile.

We have emerged from a war in which we had to accept the degradingly low ethical standards of the enemy. But instead of feeling liberated from his standards, and set free to restore the sanctity of human life and the safety of noncombatants, we are in effect making the low standards of the enemy in the last war our own for the present. Thus we are starting toward another war degraded by our own choice.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.

How did it come to pass that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity? The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. Naturally I could go deeper into the problem than a child with normal abilities.

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

Ognuno è un genio. Ma se si giudica un pesce dalla sua abilità di arrampicarsi sugli alberi lui passerà tutta la sua vita a credersi stupido.

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