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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    “But Einstein came along and took space and time out of the realm of stationary things and put them in the realm of relativity—giving the onlooker dominion over time and space, because time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.”
    Dimitri Marianoff, Einstein: An Intimate Study of a Great Man

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “Play is the highest form of research.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude… ”
    Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “I cannot conceive of a great scientist without this profound faith: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life is relative.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #16
    Albert Einstein
    “It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #19
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #22
    Albert Einstein
    “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.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #25
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #26
    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    Alexandre Dumas-fils

  • #27
    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #28
    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    C.E.M. Joad

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Albert Einstein
    “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
    Albert Einstein



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