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Albert Einstein Quotes
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler." Albert Einstein
"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift." Albert Einstein
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." Albert Einstein
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." Albert Einstein
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
- Albert Einstein
"Only a life lived for others is worth living."
- Albert Einstein
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality,
they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality." -- Albert Einstein
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my
imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
-- Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied:
"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."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will
be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert Einstein
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." -- Albert Einstein
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." -- Albert Einstein
"Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody
else -- unless it is an enemy." -- Albert Einstein
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is
the income tax." -- Albert Einstein
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide
your sources." -- Albert Einstein
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." -- Albert Einstein
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
-- Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is at all comprehensible." -- Albert Einstein
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new
problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing
one." -- Albert Einstein
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for
war." -- Albert Einstein
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is
as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a
miracle." -- A. Einstein
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition
from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not
thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously
uses his intelligence."-- Albert Einstein
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually
on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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
"If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants." -- Albert Einstein
"Through the release of atomic energy, our generation
has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric
man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted
into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms." Albert Einstein
"For there is no secret and there is no defense;
there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding
and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognise our
inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citizens an understanding
of atomic energy and its implication for society. In this lies our only
security and our only hope - we believe that an informed citizenry will
act for life and not for death." A. Einstein, 1947
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance
to the tailor." -- Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." -- Albert
Einstein
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling
in love." -- Albert Einstein
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics.
I can assure you mine are still greater." -- Albert Einstein
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent
one." -- Albert Einstein
"The only real valuable thing is intuition." -- Albert Einstein
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." -- Albert Einstein
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." -- Albert Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." Albert Einstein
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." Albert Einstein
"Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it." Albert Einstein
"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder." Albert Einstein
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." Albert Einstein
"I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it." Albert Einstein
"Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality." Albert Einstein
"I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up."
"When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it." Albert Einstein
"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive." Albert Einstein
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Albert Einstein
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber." Albert Einstein
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a
musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see
my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music."
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck,"
for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary." Albert Einstein
"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." Albert Einstein
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
"The only source of knowledge is experience." Albert Einstein
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." Albert Einstein
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." Albert Einstein
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