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It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase mans blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors; concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
-Albert Einstein
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
-Albert Einstein
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Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivablethough much less certainthat extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.
-Albert Einstein
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Acceptance
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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
-Albert Einstein
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Action(s)
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
-Albert Einstein
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
-Albert Einstein
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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
-Albert Einstein
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
-Albert Einstein
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
-Albert Einstein
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Age
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.
-Albert Einstein
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People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
-Albert Einstein, in a letter to Otto Juliusburger
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America
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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
-Albert Einstein
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Apathy
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Appreciation
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One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.
-Albert Einstein
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Assumptions
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It is theory that decides what can be observed.
-Albert Einstein
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Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
-Albert Einstein
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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.
-Albert Einstein
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Bravery
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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
-Albert Einstein
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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
-Albert Einstein
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Change
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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
-Albert Einstein
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Class
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The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
-Albert Einstein
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Common Sense
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-Albert Einstein
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Communism
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
-Albert Einstein
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Conflict
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
-Albert Einstein
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Conformity & Nonconformity
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
-Albert Einstein
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Books by and about Albert Einstein