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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

Albert Einstein
Imagination, Greater

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Albert Einstein
Foundation, Morality, Speak

Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.

Albert Einstein
Should, Access

The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.

Albert Einstein
Quantum

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Albert Einstein
Life, Fashion, Men
Albert Einstein (1987). “The collected papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”, p.43, Princeton University Press

There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

Albert Einstein
Independent, Reality, Two
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.327, Princeton University Press

Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

Albert Einstein
Military, Fighting, Government
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.

Albert Einstein
Two, Wife, Nazism
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.20, Princeton University Press

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

Albert Einstein
Wise, Hate, Psychology

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

Albert Einstein
People, Lazy, Want

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

Albert Einstein
Animal, Perception, Mind
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.116, Open Road Media

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Albert Einstein
Roles, Resources, Speculation

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

Albert Einstein
Wise, Should, Goods
Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.433, Princeton University Press

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

Albert Einstein
Depressing, Overcoming, Doe

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

Albert Einstein
Perfection, Simplicity, Quality

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

Albert Einstein
Humble, Science, Done

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

Albert Einstein
Clerks, Maxwell, Epoch
"Britain's most important historic laboratory is under threat" by Boris Jardine, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2015.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.

Albert Einstein
War, Tasks, Prevention
Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.581, Pickle Partners Publishing

I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Race, People
Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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

Albert Einstein
Worry, Understanding, World

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Albert Einstein
Perception, Conjunctions, Certain
Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.402, Running Press

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

Albert Einstein
Brain, Mind, Suffering
"The Immortal Game: A History of Chess". Book by David Shenk, www.theguardian.com. 2006.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein
Self Esteem, Men, Political
Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosen about them.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Cancer, Israel
"Childish Superstition: Einstein's Letter Makes View of Religion Relatively Clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.

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