Famous quotes by Physicists

"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"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"It is only to the individual that a soul is given"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind, it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health, or we suffer in soul, or we get fat"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Knowledge of what is, does not open the door directly to what should be"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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