Albert Einstein quotes - page 11

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it. (Albert Einstein)
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. View quote
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In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds. View quote
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The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency. View quote
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. View quote
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Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not. View quote
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger. View quote
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor. View quote
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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. View quote
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I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details. View quote
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it. (Albert Einstein)
The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me. View quote
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There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see! View quote
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I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus. View quote
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The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. View quote
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But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey. View quote
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I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. View quote
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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. View quote
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God does not play dice with the universe. View quote
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By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English! View quote
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. (Albert Einstein)
I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton. View quote
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But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. View quote
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Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it. View quote
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The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. View quote
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