Albert Einstein

Country Germany
Born Friday, 14 March 1879
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Quotes 952
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics. (Source: Wikipedia)
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A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you Uncategorized
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Uncategorized
“I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.” Uncategorized
“It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.” Uncategorized
“A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerfu... See more” Uncategorized
“It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.” Uncategorized
“If at first an idea isn't absurd, there's no hope for it.” Uncategorized
“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.” Uncategorized
“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.” Uncategorized
“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.” Uncategorized
“God always takes the simplest way.” Uncategorized
“I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.” Uncategorized
“For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.” Uncategorized
“You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.” Uncategorized
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.” Uncategorized
“You can be nothing or everything is a miracle. I believe everything is a miracle.” Uncategorized
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.” Uncategorized
“The most beautiful we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” Uncategorized
“I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.” Uncategorized
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious..the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” Uncategorized