Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

     Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.

Albert Einstein's Quotes

  • The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
  • Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
  • Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
  • The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
  • I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
  • Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
  • Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
  • Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
  • The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
  • We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
  • Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
  • Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you, mine are still greater.
  • Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
  • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
  • In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
  • The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
  • The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
  • Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
  • Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
  • 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.
  • If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
  • Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
  • The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
  • Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
  • Try not to become just a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
  • It´s not that I´m so smart; it´s just that I stay with problems longer.
  • Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
  • I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
  • The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
  • Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
  • If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?
  • The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
  • When the solution is simple, God is answering.
  • Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
  • An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
  • The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
  • Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
  • 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.
  • A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
  • If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
  • Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. 
  • A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for. 
  • If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
  • Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots.
  • A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
  • Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
  • Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
  • The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
  • Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
  • Never lose a holy curiosity.
  • 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.
  • Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to
    think.
  • It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

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