Albert Einstein Quotations | Page 5

Time flies when you are having fun.

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion...

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.

We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder...

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

Imagination rules the earth

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.