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Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social envirome...
“I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”
“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must b...
“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness ...
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the h...
“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
“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 Lo...
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is ...
“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 ...
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
“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 ...
“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses...
“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted...
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple an...
“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study a...
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of...
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
“Time is an illusion.”
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to w...
“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- ...
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man...
“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows ...
“I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas...
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes e...
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as...
“God does not play dice with the universe.”
“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this ...
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight detail...
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -...
“Information is not knowledge.”
“Play is the highest form of research.”
“I see my life in terms of music.”
“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in ph...
“A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables,...
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