Friday, September 21, 2007

Great Quotes from Albert Einstein.


The following are some amazing quotes from Einstein. He needs no audience and no introduction. My favs are marked in bold though...


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

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

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

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

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.


You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.


If you can speak of technical things only in technical terms, you do not understand them.


In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.


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.


The difference between stupidity and genius is thatgenius has its limits.


If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?


Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

my fav is "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education", though the one by mark twain is more popular. "I didn't let school interfere with my education"

Leonard Alaza said...

Right on! "The only thing that interferes with my learing is my education" is my favorite too! Very nice blog. Keep it up...:)