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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.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] War and Peace

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.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (135 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Before God we are all equally wise -- and equally foolish.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (183 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (161 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Work and Recreation

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (158 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] 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.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

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.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (161 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Life and Death

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (137 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion

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.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (161 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (168 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (173 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (157 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism and [category] 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.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (170 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion

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.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (174 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Life and Death

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (141 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion

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