Quotes from Albert Einstein

Ownership of the means of production, on the other hand, carries a power to which the traditional safeguards of our political institutions are unequal.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted

Don't judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree.

Un uomo felice è troppo soddisfatto del presente per pensare molto al futuro

More careful reflection teaches us, however, that the special theory of relativity does not compel us to deny ether...To deny the ether is ultimately to assume that empty space has no physical qualities whatever.

If God created the world, his primary concern was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind,and are not however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world

Only two things are infinite,the universe and memes,and i am not sure about the former.

The action of the earth on the stone takes place indirectly. The earth produces in its surroundings a gravitational field, which acts on the stone and produces its motion of fall...The intensity and direction of the field at points farther removed...are thence determined by the law which governs the properties in space of the gravitational fields themselves.

Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy

I, in any case, am convinced He does not play dice with the universe.

Zwei Dinge sind unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit, aber beim Universum bin ich mir noch nicht ganz sicher.

He who finds the heart that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

The world belongs to the people who are curious.

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.

He suffered incessantly from the fact that his critical faculties transcended his constructive capacities. In a manner of speaking, his critical sense robbed him of his love for the offspring of his own mind even before they were born.

Pour être un membre irréprochable parmi une communauté de moutons, Il faut avant toute chose être soi-même un mouton.

Jeder intelligente Narr kann Dinge größer und komplexer machen. Es braucht ein Stück Genialität – und jede Menge Mut -, sich in die entgegengesetzte Richtung zu bewegen.

And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.