Albert Einstein
physicist and 1922 Nobel prize winner; b. 1879; d. 1955
Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/bx0vlces · submitted 1997
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ocxoq7dr · submitted 1997
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
tiny.ag/bu9vryao · submitted 1997
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
tiny.ag/f7dpm5bc · submitted 1997
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
tiny.ag/itemrhi6 · submitted 1997
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
tiny.ag/hnsdx84l · submitted 1997
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
tiny.ag/o2nztemh · submitted 1997
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
tiny.ag/s2rmspti · submitted 1997
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
tiny.ag/u4ywocdm · submitted 1997
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
tiny.ag/unpjgmma · submitted 1997
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. <EM>That's</EM> relativity.
tiny.ag/hmdnaus7 · submitted 1997
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
tiny.ag/kvy1ngjh · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/4agfdmeh · submitted 1997
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
tiny.ag/con6lmc2 · submitted 1997
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/tmupilkz · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
tiny.ag/usy6fzdr · submitted 1997
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
tiny.ag/ct4xj6gg · submitted 1997
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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