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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

German - American physicist

Lived from: 1879 - 1955

Category: Scientists Country: FlagGermany

Born: 14 march 1879 Died: 18 april 1955

  • At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
  • Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
  • And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
  • Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
  • Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
  • No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
  • Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
  • 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.
  • I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
  • Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.
  • 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.
  • 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 - then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
  • To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
  • All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
  • 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.
  • The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
  • Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet
  • Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
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  • Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
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  • If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
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  • Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.
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  • 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.
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  • The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.
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  • A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Albert Einstein?

The two most famous quotes from Albert Einstein are:

  • "Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police."
  • "If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery."

When did Albert Einstein live?

Albert Einstein was born in 1879 and died in the year 1955.