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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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  • A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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  • Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
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  • I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
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  • I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
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  • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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  • If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
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  • Imagination encircles the world.
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  • It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
    The Human Side (1954)
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  • Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
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  • 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.
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  • Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
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  • The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
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  • The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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  • The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
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  • The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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  • The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.
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  • The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
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  • The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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  • To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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  • What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
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What are the most famous quotes from Albert Einstein?

The two most famous quotes from Albert Einstein are:

  • "A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
  • "Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound."

When did Albert Einstein live?

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