Quotes from Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.

De werkelijkheid is louter illusie, maar wel een hardnekkige.

Die Welt wird nicht bedroht von den Menschen, die böse sind, sondern von denen, die das Böse zulassen.

Hal yang paling sukar dipahami di dunia ini adalah pajak penghasilan.

Entre las dificultades se esconde la oportunidad

You'll just never know...so many emotions I choose not to show..

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

la gravedad no es culpable que la gente se enamore

In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

Come si può mettere la Nona di Beethoven in un diagramma cartesiano? Ci sono delle realtà che non sono quantificabili. L'universo non è i miei numeri: è pervaso tutto dal mistero. Chi non ha il senso del mistero è un uomo mezzo morto.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance of those super-personal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation.

Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory.

N'essayez pas de devenir un homme qui a du succès. Essayez de devenir un homme qui a de la valeur.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order.... This firm belief, a belief bound up with deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.

there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws that within these laws only rationally determined constants occur (not constants, therefore, whose numerical value could be changed without destroying the theory).

Zna?ajni problemi s kojima se suo?avamo ne mogu biti riješeni na nivou razmišljanja koje je probleme kreiralo.

The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.

Time is an illusion

I sometimes ask myself how it came about 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.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence