Einstein's good words


[ back-translated from French by me, sorry...]

United States are the only country which went directly from
barbary to decadence, without passing by civilisation.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Despite I don't foresee that atomic energy will become before long
a big weal, I should say that, for the moment, it is a threat.

The one who can no longer fell either astonishment or surprise
is as if he was dead; it's eyes are lighted off.

The nicest thing that we can feel, it's the mystery of things.

The owning of marvellous means of production hasn't brought freedom,
but worry and starvation.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I never think about future, it will come soon enough.

Nationalism is an infantile illness, it the humanity's measles.

We will have the destiny we will have deserved.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. 

The perfection of means and the confusion of goals seems
to characterize our epoch.