(In reaction to Hiroshima): If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.
Albert Einstein
(1879 - 1955)
(In reaction to Hiroshima): If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is
the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and
science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer
wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.
To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is
something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity
reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and
in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.
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.
Life is like riding a bicycle
You must keep moving forward
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
