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[When asked Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?] That is

[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?"] That is simple, my friend. It is because politics is more difficult than physics.

Albert Einstein
Mean, Science, Men
"Letters to the Times", New York Times, April 22, 1955.

A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

Albert Einstein
Simplicity, Different, Kind

e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality. Sincerely yours, Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Attitude, Humility

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Men, Tyrants
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.

Albert Einstein
Children, Space, Giving
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.25, Princeton University Press

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Albert Einstein
Ethical, Ethical Values, Values
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.26, Princeton University Press

I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

Albert Einstein
War, Trying, Causes
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.247, Princeton University Press

Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.

Albert Einstein
Ties, Berlin, Humans
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.163, Princeton University Press

The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

Albert Einstein
Goal, Embrace, Hypothesis

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Albert Einstein
Country, War, Class

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

Albert Einstein
Lasts, Surface, Collapse

A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein
Mathematical Equations, Forever, Mathematical
"Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists". Book by Robert Jungk (p. 249), 1958.

I'm no more intelligent than the next guy. I'm just more curious.

Albert Einstein
Intelligent, Guy, Next

The Devil craps on the big pile

Albert Einstein
Devil, Bigs, Crap

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

Albert Einstein
Time, War, Strive
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.161, Broadway Books

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

Albert Einstein
Order, Return, My Sympathy
Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot!

Albert Einstein
Wise, Islands, Mad
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.4, Princeton University Press

"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I".

Albert Einstein
Religious, Clear, Originals

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

Albert Einstein
Dark, Age, Medical

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

Albert Einstein
People, World, Situation
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.222, Princeton University Press

The question that drives me hazy is whether it is I or others who is crazy.

Albert Einstein
Crazy, Hazy

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

Albert Einstein
Simple, Data, Goal
"On the Method of Theoretical Physics". The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford, June 10, 1933.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

Albert Einstein
Income, Philosopher, Form

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

Albert Einstein
Strong Women, Believe, Following The Crowd

Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?

Albert Einstein
Air, Whales, Silence
Letter to his friend Conrad Habicht, May 1905.

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