Albert Einstein Quotes (31)

Albert Einstein

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1. If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
2. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
3. God doesn't play dice.
4. God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean.
5. Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-- unless it is an enemy.
6. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
7. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
8. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
9. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
10. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
14. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
15. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
16. Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
17. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
18. Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
    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.
19. I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
20. As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
21. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
22. Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
23. Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
24. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
25. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
26. 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.
27. Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
28. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
29. Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
30. Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualisation. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
31. The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

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