Albert Einstein quotes and words of wisdom

"Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Found in the topic Everything.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I"m not sure about the former."
Found in the topic Ignorance.

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
Found in the topic Problem.

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able toperceive with our frail and feeble mind. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe, forms my idea of God."
Found in the topic Religion.

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
Found in the topic Technology.

"Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one."
Found in the topic Illusions.

"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."
Found in the topic Life.

"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."
Found in the topic Desire.

"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat."
Found in the topic Radio.

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry."
Found in the topic Education.

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
Found in the topic Curiosity.

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there"s no risk of accident for someone who"s dead."
Found in the topic Fear.

"How despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
Found in the topic War.

"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
Found in the topic Contempt.

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
Found in the topic Gravity.

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
Found in the topic Tax.

"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."
Found in the topic Art.

"A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"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."
Found in the topic Opinion.

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."
Found in the topic Responsibility.

Interesting Quotes

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.H. L. Mencken - US editor (1880 - 1956)

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley - English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)

  

Who is Albert Einstein?

Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich and he began his schooling there at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his doctor's degree.

During his stay at the Patent Office, and in his spare time, he produced much of his remarkable work and in 1908 he was appointed Privatdozent in Berne. In 1909 he became Professor Extraordinary at Zurich, in 1911 Professor of Theoretical Physics at Prague, returning to Zurich in the following year to fill a similar post. In 1914 he was appointed Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute and Professor in the University of Berlin. He became a German citizen in 1914 and remained in Berlin until 1933 when he renounced his citizenship for political reasons and emigrated to America to take the position of Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton*. He became a United States citizen in 1940 and retired from his post in 1945.

Einstein always appeared to have a clear view of the problems of physics and the determination to solve them. He had a strategy of his own and was able to visualize the main stages on the way to his goal. He regarded his major achievements as mere stepping-stones for the next advance.

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