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The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
Attributed Albert Einstein: A guide for the perplexed (1979)
To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
Attributed Einstein's God (1997)
I also believe that, this kind of religiousness, which makes itself felt today in scientific investigations, is the only creative religious activity of our time.
Attributed Einstein and Religion (1999)
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
Attributed Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark (1971)
Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
What a betrayal of man's dignity. He uses the highest gift, his mind, only ten percent, and his emotions and instincts ninety percent.
Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
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Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.
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The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)
Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.
Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)
We followers of Spinoza see our God in the wonderful order and lawfulness of all that exists and in its soul ("Beseeltheit") as it reveals itself in man and animal.
Attributed Einstein and Religion (1999)
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.
Attributed Conversations with Einstein by Alexander Moszkowski (1971)
Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God — he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)
I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
Attributed Einstein and Religion (1999)
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)