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Albert Einstein's best quotes about love, God, technology, study, friendship… They represent the intelligence and thoughts of what was probably the most influential scientist in history, along with Galileo and Newton.
Einstein was born in 1879 into a German middle-class family and at the age of 3 he barely spoke. Already at the age of 12 he was fascinated by geometry books. At the age of 15 he left school to travel with his family to Italy. Later they moved to Switzerland, where he graduated at the age of 21.
Because he couldn't find a job at the university, he was helped to find a job at the Bern patent office, where he spent hours and hours examining inventions from the areas in which he later made his theories. Meanwhile, in his spare time, he was preparing his doctorate at the University of Zurich.
In 1905, he published 4 articles on: the photoelectric effect, special relativity, mass-matter equivalence (E = mc 2). Although scientists of the time did not give him much attention, he later won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921. In 1916 Einstein published the theory of general relativity, which was proven in 1919.
With Nazi Germany, Einstein joined the "Institute for Advanced Study" at Princeton. In 1939 he became an American citizen and wrote a letter to Roosevelt warning him of the danger of atomic bombs, however the government established the Manhattan Project. In addition to activism against the atomic bombs and Nazism, he was in favor of Zionism. In fact, in 1952 he was offered the post of President of Israel although he did not accept it.
He died in 1955. In his last days he continued searching for a theory to understand the universe and reality.
Throughout his life he received honorary doctorates from European and American Universities, the Copley Medal from the Royal Society of London and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute.
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The most interesting Albert Einstein quotes
-Most people say that it is the intellect that makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
-Education is what remains after one has forgotten what he learned in school.
-Love is the most powerful source of energy in the whole world, because it has no limits.
-Creativity is intelligence having fun.
- Madness: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
-I don't have a special talent. I'm just passionately curious.
-The biggest mystery in the world is that it is understandable.
-Peace cannot be maintained by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
-You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than everyone else.
-The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
-Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
-If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.
-Look deeply into nature and then you will understand everything better.
-The only thing with real value is intuition.
-The weakness of the attitude becomes the weakness of the character.
-Great spirits have always encountered the opposition of mediocre minds.
-If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-Any fool can know. The important thing is to understand.
-The only source of knowledge is experience.
-The chance does not exist; God does not play dice.
-It's strange to be known so universally and still be so lonely.
-The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.
-You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
-Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
-The world as we have created it is a process of our thought. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
-If you want to understand a person, do not listen to their words, observe their behavior.
-The correct thing is not always popular and the popular thing is not always correct.
-The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
-The distinction between past, present and future is just a stubbornly persistent illusion.
-Intellectual growth must begin only at birth and only stop at death.
-The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.
-Do not try to become a man of success, but a man of value.
-The world is a dangerous place to live; not for bad people, but for people who do nothing.
-A person who never made a mistake never tried something new.
-You don't fail until you stop trying.
-In the middle of the difficulty lies the opportunity.
-There are two ways of living: as if nothing were a miracle or as if everything were a miracle.
-It's not that I'm very smart, it's that I spend more time with problems.
-Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its entire life believing it to be a fool.
-Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
-We cannot solve our problems with the same way of thinking that we use when creating them.
-The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
-Learn from yesterday, live today, have hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure of the main one.
-He who is negligent with the truth in small things, cannot be trusted in important matters.
-When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a burning stove, it feels like an hour. That is relativity.
Albert and his sister Maja in 1886.
-It has become terribly obvious that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
-A crisis can be a great blessing for any person or nation, because all crises bring progress. Creativity is born from anguish, just as the day is born from the dark night.
Einstein in 1896.
-Do not strive to be successful, but to be of value.
-Any man who reads too much and uses his brain too little has fallen into lazy habits of thought.
-Only someone who is devoted to a cause with all his strength and soul can be a true teacher.
-Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
-If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein receiving his American Citizen Certificate from Judge Phillip Forman.
-It is the supreme art of the teacher is to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
-It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-Love is a better teacher than duty.
Niels Bohr with Albert Einstein at the home of Paul Ehrenfesten Leiden (December 1925). The photo is a study of characters: the empirical and the theoretical.
-The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason to exist.
-Pure mathematics is, in its own way, the poetry of logical ideas.
-When the solution is simple, God is responding.
-The best way to encourage yourself is to encourage someone else.
-I have to be willing to abandon what I am to become what I will be.
-Peace cannot be maintained by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
-The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Time is an illusion.
-Don't worry about your difficulties in math. I can assure you that mine are older.
Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marić. 1912.
-Reality is simply an illusion, although a very persistent one.
-Asking new questions, new possibilities, considering old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks a real advance in science.
-The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
-I live in that painful loneliness in youth but delicious in maturity.
-If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be smarter, read more fairy tales to them.
-Everything should be done as simple as possible but not simpler.
-I speak to everyone in the same way, be it the garbage man or the president of the university.
Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin in Los Angeles. Premiere of the film City Lights. 1931.
-Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-Loneliness is painful when one is young, but very pleasant when one is more mature.
-The monotony and loneliness of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
-I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Everyone should be respected as individuals, but no one idolized.
-All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
-Information is not knowledge.
-Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Einstein with his second wife, Elsa, in 1921.
-Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
-Without deep reflection, one knows the daily life that exists for other people.
-A perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to be our main problem.
-We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all of us ignore the same things.
-We mortals achieve immortality in the things that we create in common and that remain after us.
-We are architects of our own destiny.
-Many are the university chairs, but few wise and noble teachers. The classrooms are many and large, but there are not many young people with a true thirst for truth and justice.
Thomas Mann with Albert Einstein at Princeton, 1938.
-The life of a man without religion has no meaning; and it not only makes him unhappy, but incapable of living.
-When they asked me about a weapon capable of counteracting the power of the atomic bomb, I suggested the best of all: Peace.
-The value of a man for his community is usually set according to how he orients his sensitivity, his thinking and his action towards the claim of others.
-I never think about the future. It comes too early.
-If your intention is to describe the truth, do it with simplicity and elegance, leave it to the tailor.
Albert Einstein in his office at the University of Berlin in 1920.
-The desire for peace of humanity can only become reality through the creation of a world government.
-The ideals that illuminate my path and time and time again have given me courage to face life with joy have been kindness, beauty and truth.
-He who does not have the gift of wonder or enthusiasm would be better off being dead, because his eyes are closed.
-There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy: the will.
-Our sad times! It is easier to disintegrate an atom than a prejudice.
-In times of crisis the imagination is more effective than the intellect.
-The formulation of a problem is more important than its solution.
-At first all thoughts belong to love. After all the love belongs to the thoughts.
- Everything that is valuable in human society depends on the development opportunity given to the individual.
- It is impossible to conceive of peace when every action taken is with the prospect of a possible future conflict.
- No amount of experimentation can prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- The only reason for the existence of time is so that not everything happens at once.
- After the failure of humanity in the use and control of the other forces of the universe, which have turned against us, it is urgent that we feed on another kind of energy.
-When we learn to give and receive this universal energy, dear Lieserl, we will see that love conquers everything.
-There is an extremely powerful force for which science has so far not found a formal explanation. That force is love.
-People love to cut firewood. In this activity, one sees the results immediately.
-If people are good just because they fear punishment and expect a reward, then we are a pitiful bunch.
-I am a deeply religious non-believer: it is a new kind of religion.
-Love is light, since it illuminates whoever gives it and receives it.
- As for me, I prefer the silent vice to the ostentatious virtue.
-The process of scientific discovery is a continuous flight from astonishment.
-I can't believe in the concept of an anthropomorphic God, who has the power to interfere with natural laws.
-The most beautiful and profound religious emotion that we can experience is the feeling of the mystical.
-Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
-If you want to describe the truth, leave the elegance to the tailor.
-My non-belief in the existence of a God is not philosophical at all.
-Before God, we are all equally wise and equally foolish.
-I prefer an attitude of humility that corresponds to the weakness of our intellectual capacity to understand the nature of our own being.
-Science can only ascertain what it is, not what it should be.
-Religion deals only with the evaluation of human thoughts and actions, it cannot justify the facts and the correlation between the facts.
-True art is characterized by an irresistible impulse in the artist.
-From the point of view of a Jesuit priest I have always been and always will be an atheist.
-An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
-I am convinced that some political and social activities, as well as some practices of Catholic organizations, are harmful and even dangerous.
-Few people are capable of equanimously expressing opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are still unable to form such opinions.
-Nature hides its secrets because of its essential haughtiness, not because it is rude.
-The words mean whatever you want them to mean.
-I believe in the God of Spinoza, who revealed himself in the harmony of everything that exists. Not in the God who hides behind the faith and actions of men.
-Only he who dedicates himself to a cause with all his strength and soul can be a true teacher.
-God is there, abiding by the rules of nature, and can be discovered by anyone who has the courage, imagination and persistence to go looking for him.
-We don't know anything about the world or about God. All our knowledge is nothing more than the knowledge of an elementary school child.
-The true nature of things, that is something we will never really know, never.
-I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot visualize the architect of that pattern.
-I see a watch, but I can't see the watchmaker.
-The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has simply made the need to resolve an existing one more urgent.
-The talent of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent to absorb knowledge.
-Reading after a certain age takes too much attention away from your creative activities.
-Memory is misleading because it is colored by today's events.
-We are just children who have entered a bookstore full of books in many languages. We know that someone must have written those books, but we don't know how.
-We see the universe, beautifully ordered and functioning governed by its laws, but we barely managed to understand those laws a little.
-What separates me from those called atheists is my feeling of humility towards the innumerable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
-The fanatical atheists are like slaves who still feel the weight of the chains that they managed to remove with so much effort long ago.
-I have decided that when my time comes, I will bite the dust with as little medical assistance as possible.
-For those of us who are tied to old age, death comes as a liberation.
-Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
-Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sensory experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
-It is not the result of scientific research that ennobles human beings and enriches their nature, but the struggle to understand while doing creative and open-minded intellectual work.
-In the theory of relativity, the rigid solid and the clock do not play the role of irreducible elements in the structuring of physical concepts.
-The most important work of the human being is to seek morality in their actions. It is on what our internal balance depends, and our very existence. Morality in our actions is the only thing that can confer beauty and dignity to life.
-A man internally free, and scrupulous, can be destroyed, but he cannot be made a slave or a blind tool.
-Sometimes I wonder how it happened that I was the one who developed the theory of relativity. I think the reason is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. They are things that you have considered as a child. But my intellectual development was delayed, and as a result I began to wonder about space and time when I had grown up.
-My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that is revealed in the small details that we can perceive with our fragile and weak minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a higher reasoning power, revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
-The creative principle resides in mathematics.
-Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.
-In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.
-The only thing you need to know is the location of the library.
-Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and can, as a general rule, be expressed in a language understandable to everyone.
-The man of science is a poor philosopher.
-Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of the human race.
-In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between big and small problems, since the problems related to the treatment of people are all the same.
-Today I speak to you not as an American citizen and not as a Jew, but as a human being.
-To be an irreproachable member of a flock of sheep, one must first be a sheep.
-If you weren't a physicist, you would probably be a musician. I often think of music. I live my dreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
-When a person can take pleasure in marching to the rhythm of a piece of music, that is enough to make him despise it. You have been given your big brain only by mistake.
-Morality is of great importance, but for us, not for God.
-The attempt to combine wisdom and power has rarely been successful and I think about it for a short time.
-If you want to learn something about the methods that a theoretical physicist uses, I would give you this advice: Don't listen to his words, examine his achievements.
-A new type of thinking is essential for humanity to survive and advance to higher levels.
-Someone who only reads newspapers and, in the best of cases, books by contemporary authors, seems to me an extremely myopic person. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his time, since he can never see or hear anything else. What a person thinks for himself without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is quite miserable and monotonous.
-The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.
-You can't be too smart to know everything. New things are learned every day through events that occur daily in life.
-Certain types of compromise are crimes against humanity, although they want to present them to us as evidence of political wisdom.
- Isn't it strange that I, who have written only unpopular books, is so popular?
-Whoever agrees to become a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
-I rarely think in words. A thought comes, and then I try to put it into words.
-The fear of death is the most unjustified fear, since there is no risk of accident for someone who is dead.
-You cannot prevent and prepare for war simultaneously.
-There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but noim can prove how it got there.
-God always chooses the simplest way.
-Never lose a holy curiosity.
-I believe that a simple and unpretentious way of life is best for everyone, best for the body and mind.
-Science is a wonderful thing if you don't have to make a living with it.
-The great destiny of the individual is to serve instead of rule.
-Without creative personalities who think for themselves, the development of the community is unthinkable.
-I have the conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing more than an act of murder.
- Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
-Anger lives only in the bosom of fools.
-The search for truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are allowed to remain children all our lives.
-He who cannot stop to wonder and marvel, is dead; his eyes are closed.
-It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a waitress.
-Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
-I want to know all the thoughts of God; everything else is just details.
-The great objective of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the least number of hypotheses or axioms.
-Never do anything against conscience, even if the state requires it.
-I want to go when I want. It is in bad taste to prolong life artificially. I have made my contribution; it's time to go. I will do it gracefully.
-Force always attracts men of low morality.
- I do not believe that civilization is annihilated in a war that was fought with the atomic bomb. Maybe two thirds of the people on earth will be killed
-I'm not just a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I am ready to fight for peace. Nothing will end the war unless the people refuse to go to war.
-Sometimes you pay more for things you get for nothing.
-It's strange to be known universally and yet be so lonely.
-May each man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
-The devil has put a punishment on all the things we enjoy in life. We suffer in health, we suffer in soul or we get fat.
-I am an artist enough to draw freely in my imagination.