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Quotes by Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

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

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

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”

“We cant solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.”

“If you cant explain it simply, you dont understand it well enough”

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”

“I dont know, I dont care, and it doesnt make any difference!”

“Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received”

“I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be mans guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few”

“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.”

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”

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

“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest”

“Thus the partial differential equation entered theoretical physics as a handmaid, but has gradually become mistress.”

“It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.”

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

“E = mc2 Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.”

“Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.”