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If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

Albert Einstein
Half, Ends, Ifs

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, If There Is A God, 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 was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Albert Einstein
God, Religious, Atheist
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.

Albert Einstein
Children, Parent, Atheism
Albert Einstein (2015). “Relativity: The Special and the General Theory”, p.3, Princeton University Press

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

Albert Einstein
Thinking, Judging, Creative
Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.9, Book Tree

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Freedom, Thinking

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

Albert Einstein
Freedom, People, Long
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.82, Princeton University Press

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Albert Einstein
Love, Inspirational, Life
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

Albert Einstein
Moving, Miracle, Seeing

The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.

Albert Einstein
War, Party, Struggle
Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.507, Princeton University Press

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

Albert Einstein
Thinking, Elements, Homogeneous

Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein
Science, Technology, Humanity

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Albert Einstein
Independent, Reality, Thinking

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

Albert Einstein
Together, Bombs, Politics
Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 2 Aug. 1939 [delivered 11 Oct. 1939].

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Albert Einstein
Love, Life, Success
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.56, Princeton University Press

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein
Courage, Honesty, Integrity
"Our Goal Unity, but Germans Are Unfit", Free World, no. 4, 370-371, October 8, 1944.

We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Albert Einstein
Depressing, Powerful, War
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.111, Broadway Books

The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them

Albert Einstein
Thinking, Levels, Today

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

Albert Einstein
Education, Teacher, Children
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.63, Broadway Books

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

Albert Einstein
Past, Would Be, Shells
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.53, St. Martin's Press

For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.

Albert Einstein
Hands, Evaluation, Facts
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Attitude, Reality
"Einstein and Oppenheimer". Book by Silvan S. Schweber, Harvard University Press, p. 291, 2009.

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Spring, Feelings
"Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, p. 68, 1999.

No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.

Albert Einstein
Real, Thinking, Ideas

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