Albert Einstein Quotes




"The state is made for man, not man for the state."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

"I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice."

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."

"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."

"Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."

"I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book."

"Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations."

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

"My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

"Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."

"It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing."

"the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life."

"Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed."

"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."

"It seems hard to sneak a look at God's cards. But that He plays dice and uses 'telepathic' methods... is something that I cannot believe for a single moment."

"I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever."

"the equation E = mc˛, in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa."

"What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field."

"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 do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin."

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."

"How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?"

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. 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."

 

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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