"Everything should be made
as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"There are only two ways to
live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
if everything is a miracle"
Albert Einstein
"We act as though comfort and
luxury were the chief requirements
of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to
be enthusiastic about."
Albert Einstein
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Collected Quotes from
Albert Einstein
"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."
"Gravitation is not responsible
for people falling in love."
"I want to know God's thoughts;
the rest are details."
"The hardest thing in the world
to understand is the income tax."
"Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is
intuition."
"A person starts to live when he
can live outside himself."
"I am convinced that He (God)
does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not
malicious."
"Weakness of attitude becomes
weakness of character."
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"I never think of the future. It
comes soon enough."
"The eternal mystery of the
world is its comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays most for the
things one gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is
lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a
mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often
encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Everything should be made as
simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Science is a wonderful thing if
one does not have to earn one's living at it."
"The secret to creativity is
knowing how to hide your sources."
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"The only thing that interferes
with my learning is my education."
"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."
"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."
"We can't solve problems by
using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
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"Education is what remains after
one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
"The important thing is not to
stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"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."
"Two things are infinite: the
universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
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"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."
"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."
"The fear of death is the most
unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone
who's dead."
"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."
"Heroism on command, senseless
violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of
patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"A man's ethical behavior should
be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if
he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after
death."
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"The further the spiritual
evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that
the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life,
and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after
rational knowledge."
"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."
"One had to cram all this stuff
into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not.
This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had
passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any
scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
"...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."
"He who joyfully marches to
music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given
a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely
suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at
once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how
despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than
be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under
the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
"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."
"Not everything that counts can
be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign
hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995
(may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)