Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).274 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. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his “services to theoretical physics”.
You Can't Blame Gravity For Falling In Love.
It Has Become Appallingly Obvious That Our Technology Has Exceeded Our Humanity.
Never Lose A Holy Curiosity.
Love Is A Better Teacher Than Duty.
To The Master's Honor All Must Turn, Each In Its Track, Without A Sound, Forever Tracing Newton's Ground.
Knowledge Of What Is Does Not Open The Door Directly To What Should Be.
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.
As Far As I'm Concerned, I Prefer Silent Vice To Ostentatious Virtue.
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.
True Religion Is Real Living; Living With All One's Soul, With All One's Goodness And Righteousness.
A Table, A Chair, A Bowl Of Fruit And A Violin; What Else Does A Man Need To Be Happy?
The Only Reason For Time Is So That Everything Doesn't Happen At Once.
The Only Source Of Knowledge Is Experience.
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.
The High Destiny Of The Individual Is To Serve Rather Than To Rule.
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.
We Can't Solve Problems By Using The Same Kind Of Thinking We Used When We Created Them.
Imagination Is Everything. It Is The Preview Of Life's Coming Attractions.
Any Man Who Reads Too Much And Uses His Own Brain Too Little Falls Into Lazy Habits Of Thinking.
There Are Two Ways To Live: You Can Live As If Nothing Is A Miracle; You Can Live As If Everything Is A Miracle.
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.
One May Say The Eternal Mystery Of The World Is Its Comprehensibility.
I Very Rarely Think In Words At All. A Thought Comes, And I May Try To Express It In Words Afterwards.
Intellectual Growth Should Commence At Birth And Cease Only At Death.
We Should Take Care Not To Make The Intellect Our God; It Has, Of Course, Powerful Muscles, But No Personality.
If You Are Out To Describe The Truth, Leave Elegance To The Tailor.
It Was The Experience Of Mystery - Even If Mixed With Fear - That Engendered Religion.
We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Mankind Is To Survive.
Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism - How Passionately I Hate Them!
Small Is The Number Of People Who See With Their Eyes And Think With Their Minds.
The Release Of Atomic Energy Has Not Created A New Problem. It Has Merely Made More Urgent The Necessity Of Solving An Existing One.
If People Are Good Only Because They Fear Punishment, And Hope For Reward, Then We Are A Sorry Lot Indeed.
I Do Not Believe In The God Of Theology Who Rewards Good And Punishes Evil.
Confusion Of Goals And Perfection Of Means Seems, In My Opinion, To Characterize Our Age.
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.
A Person Who Never Made A Mistake Never Tried Anything New.
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.
Memory Is Deceptive Because It Is Colored By Today's Events.
It Is Strange To Be Known So Universally And Yet To Be So Lonely.
God May Be Subtle, But He Isn't Plain Mean.
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.
Nothing Is More Destructive Of Respect For The Government And The Law Of The Land Than Passing Laws Which Cannot Be Enforced.
The Value Of A Man Should Be Seen In What He Gives And Not In What He Is Able To Receive.
The Road To Perdition Has Ever Been Accompanied By Lip Service To An Ideal.
I Used To Go Away For Weeks In A State Of Confusion.
Strive Not To Be A Success, But Rather To Be Of Value.
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.
It Gives Me Great Pleasure Indeed To See The Stubbornness Of An Incorrigible Nonconformist Warmly Acclaimed.
The Attempt To Combine Wisdom And Power Has Only Rarely Been Successful And Then Only For A Short While.
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.