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Albert Einstein
physicist and 1922 Nobel prize winner; b. 1879; d. 1955 · 26 aphorisms · no comments
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Edit Comment# · Fair (657 ratings) · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
Edit Comment# · Fair (176 ratings) · 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.
Edit Comment# · Fair (135 ratings) · submitted 1997
Before God we are all equally wise -- and equally foolish.
Edit Comment# · Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Edit Comment# · Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Edit Comment# · Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in
Science and Religion and
Success and Failure
Edit Comment# · Fair (144 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Edit Comment# · Fair (184 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Edit Comment# · Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
Edit Comment# · Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
Edit Comment# · Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Edit Comment# · Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in
Science and Religion and
Wisdom and Ignorance
Edit Comment# · Fair (168 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Edit Comment# · Fair (173 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Edit Comment# · Fair (157 ratings) · 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
Edit Comment# · Fair (160 ratings) · 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.
Edit Comment# · Fair (170 ratings) · submitted 1997
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Edit Comment# · Fair (164 ratings) · 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. That's relativity.
Edit Comment# · Fair (174 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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