Inspiring Quotes by Albert Einstein - Page 2

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"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value"

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe"

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination"

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough"

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking"

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile"

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them"

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"

"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself"

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity"

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts"

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new"

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either"

"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler"

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater"

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them"

"To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground"

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one"

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal"

"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder"

"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"

"Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity"

"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds"

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed"

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science"

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind"

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist"

"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings"

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else"

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one"

"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced"

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle"

"It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion"

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler"

"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone"

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

"The only real valuable thing is intuition"

"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"

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it"

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"

"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms"

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge"

"Love is a better teacher than duty"

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"

"The faster you go, the shorter you are"

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives"

"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?"

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning"

"I have just got a new theory of eternity"

"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed"

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