Quotes by Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
(attributed)

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
(In a letter to Max Born, 1926)

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
(Observer, Jan. 15, 1950)

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
(quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940)

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
(Telegram, 24 May 1946)

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
(The World as I See It.)

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
(when asked to describe radio)