Albert Einstein

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

Albert Einstein

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one’s own efforts.

Albert Einstein

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

Albert Einstein

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

Albert Einstein

The creative imagination is the essential element of a true scientist, and fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality.

Albert Einstein

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

Albert Einstein

The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.

Albert Einstein