530 quotes
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
We shall, therefore, assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.
Statement of the equivalence principle in Yearbook of Radioactivity and Electronics (1907)
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)
Religion is concerned with man's attitude toward nature at large, with the establishing of ideals for the individual and communal life, and with mutual human relationship.
Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? (1948)
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research.
Religion and Science (1930)
That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics.
In so far as theories of mathematics speak about reality, they are not certain, and in so far as they are certain, they do not speak about reality.
Geometrie and Erfahrung (1921)
Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?
Russell–Einstein Manifesto (1955)
Clarity about the aims and problems of socialism is of greatest significance in our age of transition.
Why Socialism? (1949)
I have come to believe that the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any optical experiment.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.
The World As I See It (1949)
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010)
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism— how passionately I hate them!
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.