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Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein
Science, Subtle, Mathematical
Remark made at Princeton University, c.9 May 1921, in R. W. Clark 'Einstein' (1973) ch. 14

The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

Albert Einstein
Science, Technology, Friendly

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Albert Einstein
Inspiring, Leadership, Education

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

Albert Einstein
Music, Research, Satisfaction

What good is a reputation not put to good use.

Albert Einstein
Use, Reputation

The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.

Albert Einstein
Obvious, Difficult, Universe

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Eye, Math
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

Go out as far as you can go and start from there

Albert Einstein

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

Albert Einstein
Science, May, Pleasure

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

Albert Einstein
Ideas, Stories, World
William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.

Albert Einstein
Beautiful, Teacher, Giving Up
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.25, Open Road Media

Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

Albert Einstein
Education, Village, Littles
Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.357, Pickle Partners Publishing

Thinking like we (always) have is what got us where we are. It is not going to get us where we are going.

Albert Einstein
Thinking

[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.

Albert Einstein
Book, Errors, Nazi

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.

Albert Einstein
Details, Want, Knows

Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.

Albert Einstein
Real, Doe, World

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.

Albert Einstein
Support, Way, Natural
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

Gravity is a response to geometry.

Albert Einstein
Gravity, Geometry, Response

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Albert Einstein
States, Made, Mankind

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

Albert Einstein
Men, Years, Four

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

Albert Einstein
Principles, Needs, My Time

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Order, Law

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

Albert Einstein
Theory, Impressive, Thermodynamics
"Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist". Book by Paul Arthur Schilpp, p. 33, 1949.

I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.

Albert Einstein
Thinking, Details, Want

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Albert Einstein
Destiny, Soul, Way
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.21, Open Road Media

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