Albert Einstein idézetek
Eredeti: I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
„Tudni akarom, hogyan teremtette Isten a világot.”
Eredeti: I want to know how God created the world.
Eredeti: Our time is distinguished by wonderful achievements in the fields of scientific understanding and the technical application of those insights. Who would not be cheered by this? But let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.
Eredeti: The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments 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.
„Ha tudtam volna, inkább órásmesternek megyek.”
Eredeti: If I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Eredeti: That a man can take pleasure in marching in fours to tha strains of a band is enough to make me despise him.
Eredeti: A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.
Egy időkapszulában elhelyezett levél 1936-ból
Eredeti: I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.'
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Eredeti: I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence for fighting for our cause, but by non-participation of anything you believe is evil.
„A világegyetemben az a leginkább felfoghatatlan, hogy meg lehet érteni.”
Forrás: [Simon Singh, A Nagy Bumm, Park, 2006, 6, 978-963-530-725-8]
Eredeti: As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Eredeti: The admiration for Mahatma Gandhi in all countries of the world rests on recognition, mostly sub-conscious, recognition of the fact that in our time of utter moral decadence, he was the only statesman to stand for a higher level of human relationship in political sphere. This level we must, with all our forces, attempt to reach.
Válaszul Herbert S. Goldstein, New Your rabbijának távíiratára (1929 Április 24.), amely így szólt: "Hisz ön Istenben? Stop. Válasz 50 szóig fizetve." Einstein 25 (német) szóval válaszolt.
Eredeti: I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
„A legnehezebben megérthető dolog a világon a jövedelemadó.”
Eredeti: The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
„Nem vagyok különösebben tehetséges, csak szenvedélyesen kíváncsi.”
Egy levélben Carl Seelig-nek (1952 Március 11.)
„Az arányok mércéje, ami a rosszat nehézzé, a jót pedig könnyűvé teszi.”
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Eredeti: Er ist eine Skala der Proportionen, die das Schlechte schwierig und das Gute leicht macht.
Eredeti: I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Az élet értelméről, fordította Szécsi Ferenc
Mily különös a mi helyzetünk, a Föld gyermekeié. Csak rövid látogatásra van itt mindenki. Nem tudja miért, de néha azt hiszi, hogy sejti.