01UndatedStill there are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable: life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only being.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
02UndatedYou can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
04UndatedThe framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solutionAlbert Einstein / quote ↗
06UndatedI am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
08UndatedNow he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
09UndatedOne must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
10UndatedThe more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events. To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with the natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.- Science and Religion (1941)Albert Einstein / quote ↗
11UndatedThe word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
12UndatedNo one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistakeAlbert Einstein / quote ↗
13UndatedThe formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
14UndatedI gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
15UndatedWhen we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
19UndatedWe experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
20UndatedHow was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life.[Written to his wife, Mileva]Albert Einstein / quote ↗
21UndatedGreat spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
22UndatedIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
23UndatedThe world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
24UndatedThe world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
