The quotations of

Albert Einstein

German-born theoretical physicist

1879–1955

95 quotes, most often on Science, God and War & Peace. Part of the Scientists collection.

But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.
The Menace of Mass Destruction
- Patriotism
- War & Peace
Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action!
- Patriotism
- War & Peace
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- War & Peace
Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
“Only Then Shall We Find Courage”, New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946).
- War & Peace
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Interview with Alfred Werner, Liberal Judaism 16 (April-May 1949), Einstein Archive 30-1104, as sourced in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 173
- War & Peace
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Statement on the Atomic Bomb to Raymond Swing, before 1 October 1945, as reported in Atlantic Monthly, vol. 176, no. 5 (November 1945), in Einstein on Politics, p. 373
- War & Peace
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
“Atom: Einstein, the Man Who Started It All”, Newsweek (10 March 1947)
- War & Peace
I made one great mistake in my life⁠—when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification⁠—the danger that the Germans would make them.
Recorded by Linus Pauling, “Note to Self regarding a meeting with Albert Einstein. November 16, 1954”
- War & Peace
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
The World As I See It (1949)
- War & Peace

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