More than 100 Quotes by Albert Einstein About love, god, technology, study, friendship... They represent the intelligence and thoughts of what was probably the most influential scientist in history alongside Galileo and Newton.
He was born in 1879 in a German middle-class family and at the age of 3 he hardly spoke. Already at the age of 12 he was fascinated by books of geometry.
At age 15 he left school to travel with his family to Italy. Later they moved to Switzerland, where they graduated at the age of 21. Because he found no job at the University, they helped him find a job at the patent office in Berne, where he spent hours examining inventions from the areas in which he later did his theories. While in his free time, he was preparing his doctorate at the University of Zurich.
In 1905, he published 4 articles on: photoelectric effect, special relativity, mass-matter equivalence (e = mc2). Although the scientists of the time did not pay much attention to him, later he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
In 1916 Einstein published the theory of general relativity, which was demonstrated in 1919.
With the Nazi Germany , Einstein joined Princeton's"Institute for Advanced Study." In 1939 he became an American citizen and wrote a letter to Roosevelt warning him of the danger of atomic bombs, however the government established the Manhattan Project . In addition to activism against atomic bombs and Nazism, he was in favor of Zionism. In fact, in 1952 he was offered the post of President of Israel although he did not accept it.
He died in 1955. In his last days he continued to look for a theory to understand the universe and reality.
Throughout his life he received honorary doctorates from European and American Universities, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute.
You may also like These science phrases .
The historical Albert Einstein phrases
1-No Failures Until you stop trying.
2-Do not try to become a man of success, but a man of value.
3-The world is a dangerous place to live; Not by bad people, but by people who do nothing.
Albert and his sister Maja in 1886.
4-I have no special talent. I'm just passionately curious.
5-A person who never made a mistake never tried something new.
6-Most people say that it is the intellect that makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is the character.
7-In the middle of the difficulty lies the opportunity.
Einstein in 1896.
8-If you can not explain it to a six-year-old, you do not understand it yourself.
9-The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.
10-There are two ways to live: as if nothing is a miracle or as if everything is a miracle.
11-It's not that I'm very intelligent, I'm with the problems more time.
12-Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish for its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its entire life believing that it is a fool.
13-I have to be willing to give up who I am to become what I will be.
14-Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
15- We can not Solve our problems With the same thinking we used to create them.
16-Peace can not be maintained by force; Can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein in his office of the University of Berlin in 1920.
17-You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than everyone else.
18-The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
19-The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It can not be changed without changing our thinking.
20-Learn from yesterday, live today, have hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
21-When you're courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a stove burning, it seems like an hour. That is relativity.
22-Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
23-Madness: do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
24-Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
25-The only thing with real value is intuition.
It has become terribly obvious that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
27-The only source of knowledge is experience.
28-Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
29-The weakness of the attitude becomes the weakness of character.
30-Great spirits have always met with the opposition of mediocre minds.
31-Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure of the main.
32-Education is what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school.
33-He who is negligent with truth in small things, can not be trusted in important matters.
34-If the facts do not fit the theory, the facts change.
35-Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
36-Do not strive to be a success, but to be of value.
Albert Einstein receiving his US citizen certificate from Judge Phillip Forman.
37-Any man who reads too much and uses too little his brain has fallen into lazy habits of thought.
38. Only someone who is devoted to a cause with all his strength and soul can be a true teacher.
39-Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
40-If you can not explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough.
41-Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
"You can not blame gravity for falling in love."
43-The right is not always popular and popular is not always right.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
45-It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
46-Any man who can safely drive while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the kiss the attention he deserves.
47-It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
48-Creativity is intelligence having fun.
49-Love is a better teacher than duty.
50-The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason to exist.
51. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
52-When the solution is simple, God is responding.
53-The best way to encourage yourself is to encourage someone else.
54. Peace can not be maintained by force; Can only be achieved by understanding.
55-The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
56-The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
57. Time is an illusion.
"Do not worry about your math difficulties. I can assure you that mine are older.
Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marić. 1912.
59-Reality is simply an illusion, although a very persistent one.
60-Raising new questions, new possibilities, considering old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks a real advance in science.
It's strange to be so universally known and yet so alone.
62. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
63-The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
64-I live in that loneliness painful in youth but delicious in maturity.
65. If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be smarter, read them more fairy tales.
66-Everything should be made as simple as can be but not simpler.
"I talk to everyone in the same way, whether it's the dump or the president of the university.
68. The distinction between past, present, and future is only an obstinately persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin in Los Angeles. Premiere of the movie City Lights. 1931.
69-Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
70-Intellectual growth must begin only at birth and only cease with death.
71-La loneliness It is painful when one is young, but very pleasant when one is more mature.
72-The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
73-I do not know what weapons will be fought in World War III, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
74. Everyone should be respected as individuals, but no one should be idolized.
75. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
76-Information is not knowledge.
77-Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Einstein with his second wife, Elsa, in 1921.
78. Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
79-Without a deep reflection one knows of the daily life that exists for other people.
80-The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
81. A perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to be our main problem.
"We are all very ignorant. What happens is that we do not all ignore the same things.
83-Chance does not exist; God does not play dice.
84. We, the mortals, achieve immortality in the things we create in common and that remain after us.
"We are architects of our own destiny.
86-There are many university chairs, but few wise and noble teachers. Many and large are the classrooms, but young people do not abound with a true thirst for truth and justice.
"The life of a man without religion makes no sense; And not only makes him an unfortunate, but a being incapable of living
88. When I was asked about a weapon capable of counteracting the power of the atomic bomb, I suggested the best of all: Peace.
89. The value of a man for his community is usually fixed according to how he directs his sensibility, his thought and his action towards the claim of others.
Thomas Mann with Albert Einstein in Princeton, 1938.
"I never think about the future. It arrives too soon.
91-The greatest mystery in the world is that it is understandable.
92-If your intention is to describe the truth, do it with simplicity and elegance leave it to the tailor.
93-The desire for peace of mankind can only become reality through the creation of a world government.
94-The ideals that illuminate my path and have given me courage to face life with joy have been: kindness, beauty and truth.
95-He who does not have the gift of marveling or of becoming more enthusiastic would be worth dead, because his eyes are closed.
96. There is a motive power more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy: the will.
"You're in for our time!" It is easier to disintegrate an atom than a prejudice.
98. In times of crisis the imagination is more effective than the intellect.
99-The formulation of a problem is more important than its solution.
100-At first all thoughts belong to love. After all the love belongs to the thoughts.
101. The way they are trying to heal people is so slow that by the time they find the cure, people will be gone. That is not very efficient.
102. It is impossible to conceive peace when every action that is taken is with the prospect of a possible future conflict.
"I deeply regret that I did not know how to express what my heart holds, that it has been silent for you all my life.
104. The most important source of uranium is found in the Belgian Congo.
Love is the most powerful source of energy in the world because it has no limits.
After the failure of humanity in the use and control of the other forces of the universe, which have turned against us, it is urgent that we feed on another kind of energy
107. When we learn to give and receive this universal energy, dear Lieserl, we will prove that love conquers all.
There is an extremely powerful force for which science has not yet found a formal explanation. That force is: LOVE.
"Would you be so kind as to tell me if you are taking a stand in this war?"
110. In the summer of 1939, Dr. Szilard gave me his views on the potential importance of uranium for national defense.
When scientists sought a unified theory of the universe they forgot the most invisible and powerful of forces.
Love is light. Since it illuminates the one who gives and receives it.
113. I am really grateful to you for allowing me to express myself here today, as a man, as a European and as a tool.
114. It can not be my duty to have to seek a conduit between the nation which, for many years, has considered me its property.
I can not believe then in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the power to interfere with natural laws.
116. The most beautiful and profound religious emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystic. And that Mr. Calot is the power of all science.
The mystical beliefs of our times which show themselves in the growing stream of what is known as philosophy and spiritualism is to me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion.
118. Our experiences consist in the reproduction and combination of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body, seems to me empty and destitute.
119. My non-belief in the existence of a God is not philosophical at all.
120. Again and again in my opinion, the idea of a personal god is a child's thought. You can call it agnostic, but I do not share the crusades of professional atheists.
I prefer an attitude of humility that corresponds to the weakness of our intellectual capacity to understand the nature of our own being.
Science can only ascertain what it is, not what it should be.
123. Religion deals only with the evaluation of human thoughts and their actions, can not justify the facts and the correlation between the facts.
124. In view of such harmony in the cosmos that I, with my humble mind, am able to recognize; I am surprised that there are still people saying that there is no God. But what really bothers me, is that they cite me, to back up their arguments.
From the point of view of a Jesuit priest I have always been, and always will be, an atheist.
We must admire with humility the beautiful harmony of the structure of this world, so far as we can recognize it. And that's it.
I am convinced that some political and social activities as well as some practices of Catholic organizations are harmful and even dangerous.
"I have only mentioned birth control here and elsewhere, when population growth itself poses a risk to human health and an obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on the planet.
Nature hides its secrets because of its essential haughtiness, not because it is rude.
Words mean whatever you want them to mean.
I believe in the God of Spinoza, who revealed himself in the harmony of all that exists. Not in the God who hides behind the faith and actions of men.
132. This life is the result of cause and effect, not what is supposed to be there, in the heavenly reward.
God is there, being governed by the rules of nature, and can be discovered by anyone who has the courage, imagination and persistence to seek it.
We do not know anything about the world or about God. All our knowledge is nothing more than the knowledge of a primary school child.
The true nature of things, that's something we'll never really know, ever.
"I see a pattern, but my imagination can not visualize the architect of that pattern.
"I see a clock, but I can not see the clockmaker.
138. The human mind is not capable of conceiving the fourth dimension, so how can it conceive God? For whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are only one.
"I am a Jew, but I have also been dazzled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.
140- No one can read the Gospel without feeling the presence of Jesus.
I'm not an atheist, I do not think I can be called a patois.
"We are just a few children who have entered a bookstore full of books in many languages. We know someone must have written those books, we do not know how.
We see the universe, beautifully ordered and functioning by its laws, but we barely understand those laws a little.
What separates me from those so-called atheists is my feeling of humility towards the innumerable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
145. Atheistic fanatics are like slaves who still feel the weight of the chains that long ago managed to take off with so much effort.
"I've decided that when my time comes, I'll bite the dust with as little medical care as possible.
For those of us who are tied to old age, death comes as a deliverance.
One always instinctively does everything possible to postpone the arrival of the final deal.
149. Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sensory experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
150- It is not the result of scientific research that ennobles human beings and enriches their nature, but the struggle to understand while performing creative and open-minded intellectual work.