Albert Einstein:
(Ulm, Switzerland, 14 March 1879 – Princeton (New Jersey), USA, 18 April 1955).
German-Swiss-American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent. He is widely regarded as one of the most important physicists in history, alongside Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell. He himself always referred to Newton as a much more important physicist than himself because, unlike Einstein, Newton made great experimental discoveries besides theoretical ones. In everyday life, Einstein’s name has become synonymous with great intelligence.
Time only exists because otherwise everything would happen at once.
Learn from yesterday, live for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
The Intuitive Mind Is a Sacred Gift and the Rational Mind Is a Faithful Servant.
An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour.
In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
I’m more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
The idea that this universe in all its million-fold order and precision is the result of blind chance, is as credible as the idea that if a print shop blew up all the type would fall down again in the finished and faultless form of the dictionary.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me 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.
An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Sometimes you pay the most for the things that are free.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
The bitter lessons of the past must be continually re-learned.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The word progress will have no meaning as long as there are unhappy children.
If An Idea Does Not Sound Absurd, Then There’s No Hope For It
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
The source of our misery is that we expect more from laboratories than from prayer rooms.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited.
