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Quotes by Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest scientists of all time. He made many contributions towards physics, such as relativity and quantum mechanics, and is considered to be one of the most influential physicists of all time. He inspired countless other scientists and inventors with his work.
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"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
Albert Einstein"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
Albert Einstein"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
Albert Einstein"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."
Albert Einstein"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
Albert Einstein"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
Albert Einstein"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
Albert Einstein"The only source of knowledge is experience."
Albert Einstein"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
Albert Einstein"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein"God always takes the simplest way."
Albert Einstein"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
Albert Einstein"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
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"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
Albert Einstein"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
Albert Einstein"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."
Albert Einstein"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
Albert Einstein"God does not play dice."
Albert Einstein"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
Albert Einstein"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
Albert Einstein"I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details."
Albert Einstein"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
Albert Einstein"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."
Albert Einstein"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
Albert Einstein"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
Albert Einstein"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
Albert Einstein"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Albert Einstein"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."
Albert Einstein"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
Albert Einstein"We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
Albert Einstein"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
Albert Einstein"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
Albert Einstein"Information is not knowledge."
Albert Einstein"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
Albert Einstein"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."
Albert Einstein"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."
Albert Einstein"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
Albert Einstein"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
Albert Einstein"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
Albert Einstein"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
Albert Einstein"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
Albert Einstein"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."
Albert Einstein"Love is a better teacher than duty."
Albert Einstein"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
Albert Einstein"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
Albert Einstein"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"
Albert Einstein"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war."
Albert Einstein"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
Albert Einstein"Force always attracts men of low morality."
Albert Einstein"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."
Albert Einstein"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
Albert Einstein"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
Albert Einstein"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
Albert Einstein"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
Albert Einstein"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."
Albert Einstein"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
Albert Einstein"Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."
Albert Einstein"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
Albert Einstein"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."
Albert Einstein"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."
Albert Einstein"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
Albert Einstein"I have just got a new theory of eternity."
Albert Einstein"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
Albert Einstein"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
Albert Einstein"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
Albert Einstein"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
Albert Einstein"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."
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"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"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
Albert Einstein"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
Albert Einstein"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
Albert Einstein"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein"The environment is everything that isn't me."
Albert Einstein"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
Albert Einstein"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
Albert Einstein"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."
Albert Einstein"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
Albert Einstein"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
Albert Einstein"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
Albert Einstein"I love to travel, but hate to arrive."
Albert Einstein