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Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 54

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I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Ideas, Religion
Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (28 September 1949), from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

Albert Einstein
Science, Thinking, Principles

To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?

Albert Einstein
Fashion, Eye, Judging

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein
Teaching, Math, Science
"Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.

Albert Einstein
Self, Care, Hell
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.421, Princeton University Press

The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Heart, Ideas

Warfare cannot be humanized.

Albert Einstein
Warfare
Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

Albert Einstein
Mother, Agony, Bears

Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

Albert Einstein
Powerful, Pay The Price, Civilization

One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Names, Ballet
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.443, Princeton University Press

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

Albert Einstein
Political, Independence, Cohesion
Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.17, Open Road Media

Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

Albert Einstein
Eye, People, Everyday

In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Albert Einstein
Men, Justice, Important

No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.

Albert Einstein
Believe, May, Matter

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

Albert Einstein
Eye, Reflection, Principles

The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.

Albert Einstein
Light, Darkness, Sometimes

Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

Albert Einstein
Government, People, Giving
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.29, Open Road Media

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Albert Einstein
Love, Life, God
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.479, Princeton University Press

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom
"János: The Story of a Doctor". Book by János Plesch, 1947.

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

Albert Einstein
Respect, Men, Depth

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Albert Einstein
Motivational, Art, Freedom
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.37, Princeton University Press

Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.

Albert Einstein
Taken, Men, Views
Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Apr. 1926

Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

Albert Einstein
Party, People, Political
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.11, Open Road Media

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

Albert Einstein
God, Religious, Attitude
Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared

Albert Einstein
Light, Energy, Body
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.58, St. Martin's Press

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