Albert Einstein Quotes 3

“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
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“In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all, be a sheep.”
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“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.”
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“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.”
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“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
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“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
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“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..”
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“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”
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“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”
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“Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.”
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
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“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”
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“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
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“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
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“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”
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“To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.”
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“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
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“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
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“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.”
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“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
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“We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born.”
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“I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.”
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“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
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“Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.”
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“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
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“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”
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“For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”
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“In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)”
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“What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.”
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“But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.”
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“Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.”
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“Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut”
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“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
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“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
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“When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.”
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“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
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“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.”
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“It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.”
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“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
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“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”
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“I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that don't work.”
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“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
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“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
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“People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”
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“If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
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“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”
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“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.”
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“My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.”
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