Friday, September 3, 2010

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

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The only real valuable thing is intuition

I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

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