I do not withdraw the wise man from the category of man, nor do I deny to him the sense of pain as though he were a rock that has no feelings at all.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
The supreme task of the physicist is the discovery of the most general elementary laws from which the world-picture can be deduced logically. But there is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance, and this Einfühlung [literally, empathy or 'feeling one's way in'] is developed by experience.
Until kings are philosophers or philosophers are kings, cities will never cease from ill.
One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse.
No path of flowers leads to glory.
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities—perhaps the only one — in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
One truth cannot conflict with another.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.
There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
Not wise does it seem to attempt comprehending and understanding a Human World without full perfected Humanity.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
The least movement affects all nature; the entire sea changes because of a rock.
It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.
Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
There's small choice in rotten apples.
Babies and animals are the mirrors of nature.
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
A star shines on the hour of our meeting.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Through Albert Einstein's work the horizon of mankind has been immeasurably widened, at the same time as our world picture has attained a unity and harmony never dreamed of before.
Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.
If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty.
I picked this sprig of heather Autumn has died you must remember We shall not see each other ever I'm waiting and you must remember Time's perfume is a sprig of heather
It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready made, completely written — but then, try to do it!
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
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