Albert Einstein quotes

-Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

-A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

-Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.

-Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

-Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

-He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

-Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them.

-I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

-I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

-If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

-If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

-Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

-It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

-It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

-Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

-Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

-The important thing is not to stop questioning.

-The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

-The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

-The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

-The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

-To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

-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.

-We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

-When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.