Famous Quotes from Albert Einstein
"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."
           "Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"
*"Few are those who see with their own
eyes and feel with their own hearts."
           "I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe."
           * "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."
           "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
           source of all true art and 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."
           "I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving
           force of scientific research."*
"Why does this applied science, which saves
           work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer
           runs: Because we have not yet
           learned to make sensible use of it."
           "Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are
           far greater."
           *"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
           "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. "
           * "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday
           thinking."
           "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
           would it?"
           * "Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of
           one and the same reality"
           "I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop
           the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never
           stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he
           has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was
           retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about
           space and time only when I had already grown up."
           "When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize
           that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted
           it."
           "I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
           * "It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer ."
           * "If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a
           plumber."
           "When the solution is simple, God is answering."
           "I want to know God's thoughts,..... the rest are details.."
           "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which
           based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that
           would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...."
           "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are
           based on the labors of others ."
           "Only a life lived for others is a life worth while ."
           "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
           sure about the former."
           *"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is
           comprehensible."
           * "It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
           "In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above
           all be a sheep oneself."
           *"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."
           "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
           "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18."*
           "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created
           them."
           "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
           *"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
           "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
           "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
           "If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z
           is keep your mouth shut."
           "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be
           counted counts."
           *"The faster you go, the shorter you are."
           * "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
           "The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary
           telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows
           in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. "
           "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel
           libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
           "An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."
           * "Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are
           fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions."
           "All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the
           axe in the hand of the pathological criminal."
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