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Albert Einstein [1879-1955] German

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Physicist, Theoretical Physicist

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Einstein is best known in popular culture for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².

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Quote	Tags	Rank
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.	Love	71
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.	Nature	102
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.	Brainy	103
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.	Success	104
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.	Imagination, Intelligence, Knowledge	105
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.	Hope	106
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.	Peace	107
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.	Intelligence	108
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.	Attitude	109
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.	Technology	110
The only source of knowledge is experience.	Experience, Knowledge	111
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.	Death, Education	112
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.		113
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.	Success	114
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.		115
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.	Education, Learning	116
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.	Funny	117
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.	Life	118
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.	Respect	119
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.	Science	120
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.	Imagination	121
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.	Brainy	122
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.		123
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.	Poetry	124
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.	Art, Knowledge, Teacher	125
Information is not knowledge.	Knowledge	126
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.		201
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.	Government	202
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.	Trust, Truth	203
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.	Change, Science	204
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.	Brainy	205
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.	Religion, Science	206
The environment is everything that isn't me.	Environmental	207
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.		208
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?	Learning	209
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.	Intelligence, Nature	210
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.		211
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.	Imagination, Science	212
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.		213
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.		214
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.	Age, Education	215
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?		216
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.	Beauty, Nature	217
When the solution is simple, God is answering.	God	218
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.	Strength	219
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.	Age, Funny	220
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.	Science	221
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.	Life	222
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.		223
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.		224
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.	Knowledge, Positive	225
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.	Art, Experience, Science	226
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.		301
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.	Society	302
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.	Truth	303
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.	Faith, God, Power	304
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.	Anger	305
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.		306
God does not play dice.	God	307
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.	Brainy	308
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.	War	309
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.	Future	310
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.	Good	311
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.	War	312
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.	Good	313
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.	Life	314
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.	Brainy	315
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.	Science	316
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.	Science	317
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.	Wisdom	318
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.	Equality, God	319
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.	Money	320
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.		321
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.		322
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.	God, Religion	323
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.		324
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.	Failure, Time	325
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.	God	326
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.	Religion	401
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.	Education	402
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.	Education, Learning	403
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.	Science	404
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.		405
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.	Great, Science	406
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.	Brainy, Knowledge, Truth	407
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.	Best	408
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.		409
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.		410
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.		411
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.	Death, Fear	412
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.	Great	413
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.	Great	414
Imagination is more important than knowledge.	Imagination, Knowledge, Wisdom	415
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.	Knowledge, Time	416
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.	Science	417
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.	Politics	418
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.	Future, War	419
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.		420
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.		421
Never lose a holy curiosity.		422
Love is a better teacher than duty.	Love, Teacher	423
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.	Knowledge	424
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.		425
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.	Nature	426
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.		501
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.		502
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.	Religion	503
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?	Happiness	504
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.	Time	505
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.	Intelligence, Music	506
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.		507
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.	Peace, War	508
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.	Imagination	509
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.		510
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.	Education	511
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.		512
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.		513
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.		514
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.		515
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.	Intelligence	516
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.	Truth	517
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.	Experience, Fear, Religion	518
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.		519
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!	Patriotism	520
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.		521
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.	War	522
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.		523
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.	Fear, Good, Hope	524
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.	Age	525
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.		526
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.	Nature, Science	601
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.	Alone	602
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.		603
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.		604
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.	Government, Respect	605
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.		606
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.		607
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.		608
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.		609
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.	Religion, Strength	610
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.		611
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.	Power, Wisdom	612
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.	Future	613
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.	Truth	614
God always takes the simplest way.	Faith	615
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.		616
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.	Beauty, Truth	617
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.	Health	618
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.		619
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.		620
The faster you go, the shorter you are.		621
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.	Love	622
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.	Imagination	623
Force always attracts men of low morality.	Power	624
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.	Respect	625
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.		626
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.		701
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.		702
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.		703
The only real valuable thing is intuition.		704
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.		705
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.	War	706
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.		707
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.	Religion	708
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.	Nature	709
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.		710
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.	God	711
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.		712
I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.		713
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.	Beauty	714
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.	Future	715
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?		716
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.		717
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.		718
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.	Art, Imagination	719
The man of science is a poor philosopher.	Science	720
I have just got a new theory of eternity.	Time	721
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.	Art	722
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.		723

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