Ifs

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

#Albert Einstein#World#Security#Adequate#Civilization#Government#Guarantees#Law#Ideals#Ifs#Urgent#World Government

Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.

#Albert Einstein#School#Acceptance#Students#Daydreaming#Poor#Interest#Class#Would Be#Ifs#Openness

All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.

#Albert Einstein#Thinking#Responsible#Circumstances#Certain#Levels#Results#Want#Conditions#Our Lives#Ifs

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

#Albert Einstein#Mean#Spirit#Blunt#Prove#Behinds#Instruments#Ifs

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.

#Albert Einstein#Wisdom#Hope#Knowledge#Experience#Wise#Art#Mind#Wish#Spontaneous#Logical#Abstract#Mutual#Consequence#Essence#Hands#Made#Notion#Activity#Assertion#Complexes#Concepts#Our Thoughts#Products#Related#Ifs

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

#Albert Einstein#Power#Powerful#Action#Elementals#Force#Ifs#Stirring#Cease

Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.

#Albert Einstein#Country#Evil#Authority#Danger#Tyranny#Armed Forces#Deterioration#Force#Government#Information#Tendencies#Carrie#Ifs

By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!

#Albert Einstein#Science#Men#Today#Jew#Application#Theories Of Relativity#Description#England#Germany#Reader#Swiss#Taste#Theory#Ifs#Relativity

Don’t do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

#Albert Einstein#Country#Conscience#Ifs

E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2. Ist die Tragheit eines Korpers von Seinem Energieghalt Abhangig? 1905

#Albert Einstein#Giving#Energy#Speed#Speed Of Light#Body#Form#Light#Mass#Radiation#Diminish#Ifs#Originals#Statements#Dies

Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.

#Albert Einstein#Hell#Hesitation#Ifs

Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.

#Albert Einstein#People#Disappear#Time And Space#Universe#Matter#Space#Relativity#Ifs

Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.

#Albert Einstein#Spiritual#Goal#Wish#Kind#Human Nature#Strive#Fulfillment#Worthy#Values#Able#Humans#Limits#Materials#Raises#Harmonious#Human Beings#Spiritual Values#Ifs

I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will…Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.

#Albert Einstein#Believe#Men#Community#Wish#Free Will#Responsible#Civilized#Compelled#Ifs#Nevertheless

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

#Albert Einstein#Atheist#Mind#Problem#Involved#I Can#Knows#Ifs

I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer’s words: ‘Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,’ accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.

#Albert Einstein#Believe#Men#Acting#Losing#Action#Awareness#Painful#Free Will#Individual#Temper#Situation#Reconcile#Accompany#Fellow Man#Want#Can Do#Fellows#Ifs

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

#Albert Einstein#Thinking#Moon#Physics#Quantum Physics#Ifs#Quantum Theory#Electrons#Particles#Quantum

I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.

#Albert Einstein#Powerful#Inspiration#Purpose#Concerned#Universe#Answers#Equations#Want#Asks#If I Could#Ifs#My Own Life#My Own#Knows

I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.

#Albert Einstein#Beautiful#Religious#Humble#Men#Profound#Mind#Emotion#Spirit#Admiration#Mystical#Perceive#Able#Details#Essence#Fixed#Frail#Said#Subtle#Feeble Minds#Concepts#Ifs#Sensations#Superiors

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: “If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight.” I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

#Albert Einstein#Science#Fall#Simple#Office#Simplicity#Impression#Gravitation#Chairs#Feels#Made#Patents#Persons#Sitting#Theory#Weight#Simple Thoughts#Ifs#Sitting In A Chair#Gravity

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

#Albert Einstein#Physics#Quantum Theory#Ends#Quantum#Theory#Ifs#Quantum Physics#Quantum Mechanics

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

#Albert Einstein#Inspirational#Humor#Success#Life#Work#Motivational#Science#Funny#Success In Life#Human Nature#Thought Provoking#Mouths#Play#Plus#Keeping Your Mouth Shut#Ifs#Formula For Success#Successful People#Successful Life#Succes#Equations#About Success#Successful Work#Modern Physics#Imagination#Success And Life

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

#Albert Einstein#Cat#Animal#Men#Abstinence#Injury#Righteous#Firsts#Aspire#Ifs#Animal Rights#Kindness To Animals#Animal Abuse#Animal Compassion#Animal Cruelty#Animal Welfare#Vegetarian#Animal Life#Animal World#Vegetarian Diet#Vegan#Dog Rescue#Abuse#Cruelty#Animal Rescue#Vegetarianism#Wildlife#Zoos#Sentient Beings#Abused Animals#Compassion Towards Animals#Vegetarian Health#Wildlife Animals#Animal Conservation#Inspirational Animal#Appreciate#Pet

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

#Albert Einstein#Hope#Inspirational#No Hope#Absurd#Absurdity#Creativity#Firsts#Ideas#Spiritual#Brainstorming#Lateral Thinking#Ifs#Ideas And Creativity#Power Of Ideas#Creative Mind#Creativity And Innovation#Innovation#Ideas And Innovation#New Ideas#Creative Business#Creative Ideas#Creative Power#Thoughts And Ideas#Creative Thinking#Creative#Be Creative#Sharing Ideas#No Idea#Creative Thought#Social Innovation#Business Innovation#Creativity And Learning#Innovation And Business#Innovation And Leadership

If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.

#Albert Einstein#Science#Statistics#Ifs#I Can#Math#Physics

If I could do it all again, I’d be a plumber.

#Albert Einstein#Inspirational#Plumber#Spiritual#If I Could#Ifs

If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I’ll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.

#Albert Einstein#Giving#Ideas#Stills#Ifs#New Ideas

If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

#Albert Einstein#Inspirational#Thinking#Problem#Hours#Solutions#Thought Provoking#Minutes#Solve#Spiritual#Ifs#Solved Problems#Problems And Solutions#Physicist#Spending

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

#Albert Einstein#Torn#Hiroshima#Formulas#Foreseen#Ifs#Hiroshima And Nagasaki

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I’d have been a plumber.

#Albert Einstein#Modern#Plumber#Modern Life#Has Beens#Ifs

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

#Albert Einstein#Destruction#Ifs#Known

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

#Albert Einstein#Business#Thinking#Students#Goods#Noble#Traders#Ifs

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

#Albert Einstein#World#Problem#Hours#Save The World#Solutions#Defining#Fifty#Findings#Minutes#Five#Five Minutes#Ifs#One Hour#Problem Solving#Solve#Solved Problems

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

#Albert Einstein#Jew#Quaker#Would Be#Ifs

If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.

#Albert Einstein#Inspirational#Activism#Dissent#Guilty#Silent#Complicity#Spiritual#Ifs

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

#Albert Einstein#Care#Grooming#Self#Ifs#My Own

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

#Albert Einstein#Inspirational#Ashamed#Philosophy#Situation#Clothes#Furniture#Ideas#Meat#Would Be#Spiritual#Ifs#Shabby

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

#Albert Einstein#Science#Inspirational#Successful#World#Theories Of Relativity#Prove#Jew#Citizens#Claims#France#Germany#Should#Theory#Spiritual#Ifs#Proven#Relativity#Untrue#Mathematical#World Citizen#Science Physics#Racism

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

#Albert Einstein#Science#Knowledge#Should#Ifs#Known#Should Have#Nuclear Weapons#Nuclear Bomb#Atomic Weapons#Nuclear#Scientific Knowledge#Atomic War#Atomic Bomb#Nuclear Energy#Physics#Physicist#Bombs#Nuclear Proliferation

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

#Albert Einstein#Fear#Religion#Sorry#People#Punishment#Rewards#Ifs#Anti God#Atheism#Atheist#Atheistic#God Delusion#Reward And Punishment#Agnostic#Science And Religion#Science Religion#Im Sorry#I Am Sorry#Am Sorry#Good Governance#Morality And Religion#Religion God#Daily Atheist#God And Science#Science God#Funny Atheist#Saying Im Sorry