Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.


Albert Einstein

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ALBERT EINSTEIN
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
God is clever, but not dishonest.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which g...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human s...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible pictu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcil...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the co...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will d...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at whe...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created th...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian rel...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for sel...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concep...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
ALBERT EINSTEIN