Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately read more

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The read more

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much read more

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.