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Quotes by Albert Einstein
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A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? Albert EinsteinA man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. 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. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. .. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 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. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. Force always attracts men of low morality. God always takes the simplest way. God does not play dice. God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. He who joyfully marches 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.
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