Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something,
wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
--Albert Einstein
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.
--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
Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health
of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.
--Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)
The search for truth is more precious than its possession
--Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
--Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
--Albert Einstein
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
--Albert Einstein
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
--Albert Einstein
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
--Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.
--Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
--Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it.
--Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
--Albert Einstein
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
--Albert Einstein
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable receiving.
--Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once
--Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
--Albert Einstein
Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue
--Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches 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
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
--Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
--Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler
--Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
--Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion
--Albert Einstein
Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune
intoned in the distance by an invisible player
--Albert Einstein
Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me
--Albert Einstein
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;
for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it.
But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all
for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
--Albert Einstein
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men
because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.
--Albert Einstein
I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice
--Albert Einstein
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence:
Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
--Albert Einstein
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know
--Albert Einstein
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...
No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
--Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving
--Albert Einstein
So long as there are men there will be wars
--Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile diease, the measles of mankind
--Albert Einstein
I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings
--Albert Einstein
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth.
It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window
--Albert Einstein
I love to travel, But hate to arrive
--Albert Einstein
Politics is more difficult than physics
--Albert Einstein
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer
to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist,
dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of
mass psychology that is beyond me.
--Albert Einstein
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
--Albert Einstein
When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador:
they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes,
open my closet and show them my suits.
--Albert Einstein
Lasting harmony with a woman(was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully
--Albert Einstein
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the
world of objective perception and thought.
--Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality
--Albert Einstein
I don't believe in mathematics.
--Albert Einstein
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
THAT'S relativity
--Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
--Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
--Albert Einstein
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means
--Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible
--Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
--Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
--Albert Einstein
The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same
level of thinking we were at when we created them.
--Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. I
magination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
--Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
--Albert Einstein
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure a
nd the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.
--Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
--Albert Einstein
It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the
human race larvae that men are to be helped
--Albert Einstein
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein
As punishment for my contempt for authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
--Albert Einstein
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested
in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element.
I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
--Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by
fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
--Albert Einstein
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe,
a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves,
our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest.
A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
--Albert Einstein
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
--Albert Einstein
Weakness read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
--Albert Einstein
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
--Albert Einstein
On the big Bang theory: "For every one billion particles of antimatter
there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation
was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe."
--Albert Einstein
MacMillan has this particular quote simply as "God doesn't play dice."
and notes that it is often quoted as doesn't play dice with the universe"
--Albert Einstein
Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking
in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.
--Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
--Albert Einstein
He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the
eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition,
experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times,
had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.
--Albert Einstein
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the
individual who can labor in freedom.
--Albert Einstein
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