Albert Einstein Quotes
20 quotes from Albert Einstein — Theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity (E=mc²)..
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
“This daily striving is dictated by no principle or program, but arises from immediate personal need. The emotional condition which renders possible such achievements is like that of the religious devotee or the lover.”
“Do they think I am a prizefighter?”
“Only a monomaniac gets what we commonly refer to as results.”
“A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is — in my opinion — the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.”
“He did not place in the correct light the essentially constructive and speculative nature of all thinking and more especially of scientific thinking; in consequence, he condemned theory precisely at those points where its constructive-speculative character comes to light unmistakably.”
“But I have never gone away from them. How can an educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.”
“The war is won, but the peace is not. The great powers, united in fighting, are now divided over the peace settlements.”
“Our experience hitherto justifies us in trusting that nature is the realization of the simplest that is mathematically conceivable. I am convinced that purely mathematical construction enables us to find those concepts and those lawlike connections between them that provide the key to the understanding of natural phenomena.”
