> Albert Einstein Quotes
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> On Knowledge
> - "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and
> more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage
> -- to move in the opposite direction."
> - "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
> - "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
> - "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
> - "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
> eighteen."
> - "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
> - "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
> - "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
> reason for existing."
>
> His Understanding of the World:
> - "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
> - "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
> - "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
> - "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
> - "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
> - "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
> - "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by
> understanding."
> - "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
> comprehensible."
> - "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and
> I'm not sure about the the universe."
> - "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
> Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
> - "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but
> World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
> - "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must,
> above all, be a sheep."
> - "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can
> be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
>
> On People and Life:
> - "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
> - "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
> - "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
> - "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
> - "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
> - "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak
> minds."
> - "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
> - "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to
> explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a
> biological phenomenon as first love?"
> - "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."
> - "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way
> of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of
> mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
> - "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
> mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does
> not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly
> and courageously uses his intelligence."
> - "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
> It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom
> this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder
> and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
> - "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of
> me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics,
> know that the distinction between past, present, and future is
> only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
> - "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat.
> You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los
> Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly
> the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there.
> The only difference is that there is no cat."
> - "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_,
> a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
> thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest...
> a kind of optical delusion of his 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 this prison by widening
> our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
> the whole of nature in its beauty."
>
> On Math and Science and Education:
> - "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's
> living at it."
> - "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He
> integrates empirically."
> - "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday
> thinking."
> - "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological
> criminal."
> - "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used
> when we created them."
> - "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he
> learned in school."
> - "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure
> you mine are still greater."
> - "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the
> present, but an equation is something for eternity."
> - "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.
> Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
> - "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
> certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
> - "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics
> and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important,
> for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical
> equation stands forever."
> - "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science
> is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless
> dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A
> finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into
> the world of objective perception and thought."
> - "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."
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