1030) I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein
interview given on the ship
Belgenland (12/1930) [ODQ]
in the Einstein Archive (36-570)
as from 1945-1946 [QE]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1031) Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

Albert Einstein
quoted by Eric Temple Bell in
Mathematics, Queen and Servant of the Sciences
(1952) [WQ]; not listed in [QE]
variant version posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

[Note: cf. #740]

1032) Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein
letter to California student E. Holzapfel (3/1951)
quoted by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman in
Albert Einstein, the Human Side (1979) [QE]
Einstein Archive 59-1013
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1033) The man who is thoroughly convinced of the universal operation of the law of causation cannot for a moment entertain the idea of a being who interferes in the course of events — provided, of course, that he takes the hypothesis of causality really seriously. He has no use for the religion of fear and equally little for social or moral religion. A God who rewards and punishes is inconceivable to him for the simple reason that a man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal, so that in God's eyes he cannot be responsible, any more than an inanimate object is responsible for the motions it undergoes. Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationships; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein
"Religion and Science"
New York Times Magazine (11/9/1930) [WQ]
reprinted in Ideas and Opinions (1954) [QE]
posted in part by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1034) The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein
"Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940)
Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium (1941)
reprinted in Ideas and Opinions (1954)
as "Science and Religion" [QE]
Einstein Archive 28-523
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1035) We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein (attributed)
not listed in [QE]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1036) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein (attributed)
not listed in [QE]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

[Note: While the thought has value, this quote seems unlikely to be legitimate. As Wikiquote says, "Einstein is one of those major iconic figures to whom many statements become attributed; unsourced attributions to him should usually be treated with some skepticism, and often a great deal of it." Other figures who attract attributions like magnets: Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken and Kurt Vonnegut. See #1662.]