Quotes by
Albert Einstein |
1879-1955 , German-Jewish physicist
German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of Relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century.He is best known in popular culture for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2.
He was named by TIME magazine the “Person of the 20th Century”.
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Quotations
| • | The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. 41 |
| • | Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity. 32 |
| • | Force always attracts men of low morality. 17 |
| • | Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. 16 |
| • | If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut. 16 |
| • | We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them. 13 |
| • | If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. 12 |
| • | The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. 10 |
| • | Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. 10 |
| • | Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. 9 |
| • | Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. 9 |
| • | Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. 9 |
| • | Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. 9 |
| • | Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. 8 |
| • | I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. 7 |
| • | Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. 7 |
| • | If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. 7 |
| • | It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. 7 |
| • | Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. 7 |
| • | God doesn't play dice with the world. 6 |
| • | I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind. 6 |
| • | Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. 6 |
| • | Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. 6 |
| • | I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details. 5 |
| • | If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. 5 |
| • | The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. 5 |
| • | When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. 5 |
| • | I am neither a German citizen, nor do I believe in anything that can be described as a “Jewish faith.” But I am a Jew and glad to belong to the Jewish people, though I do not regard it in any way as chosen. 4 |
| • | I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. 4 |
| • | Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen. 4 |
| • | Creativity is intelligence having fun. 4 |
| • | Imagination is more important than knowledge. 4 |
| • | In so far as theories of mathematics speak about reality, they are not certain, and in so far as they are certain, they do not speak about reality. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. 4 |
| • | I love to travel, but I hate to arrive. 3 |
| • | A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. 3 |
| • | Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. 3 |
| • | Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me. 3 |
| • | Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. 3 |
| • | Information is not knowledge. 3 |
| • | Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age. 3 |
| • | The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. 3 |
| • | God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. 2 |
| • | God may be sophisticated, but he's not malicious. 2 |
| • | I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs. 2 |
| • | I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. 2 |
| • | 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. 2 |
| • | All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking. 2 |
Funny Quotes
| • | The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes. 6 |
