Quotes from Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom.