Nobel laureate, physicist Albert Einstein is well-known not only for his great achievements in science but also for his remarkable quotations and sayings.
- “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the former”
- “Only a fool needs an order, a genius dominates over the chaos”
- “Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why”
- “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle”
- “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school”
- “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live it’s whole life believing it is stupid”
- “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
- “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research”
- “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
- “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
- “If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker”
- “Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn’t know came along and did it.”
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”
- “Education is not the learning of facts, it’s rather the training of the mind to think”
- Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character”
- “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts”
- “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself”
- “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
- “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas”
- “Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person”
- “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things”
- “International law exists only in textbooks on international law”
- “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”
- “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education”
- “I’m doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives”
- “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
- “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough”
- “The most wonderful thing we feel is impossible to explain”
- “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”
- “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
- “You think everything is easy, yes it’s easy, but not so”
- “All people are cheating. But that’s not terrible. people do not listen to one another”
- “Too crazy to be genius”
- “To break the wall with the forehead, you have to have a great deal of force, or many foreheads”
- “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
- “Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
- “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else”
- “Never memorize something that you can look up”
- “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
