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Inspirational Quotes by Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Inspirational Quotations by Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, humanist, and philosopher. Regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, he is best known for revolutionizing twentieth-century physics with his contributions to relativity, photoelectric effect, and the unification of the laws of physics. A passionate humanist, he advocated peace, political freedom, and social justice.

Born to Jewish parents in Ulm, Germany, Einstein started studying mathematics at school. He was an average student, and his teachers predicted that he would never amount to much in life. He did not succeed in his first attempt at the entrance exam to a technical college at age 16.

Einstein barely made it through the Zurich Polytechnic Institute and could not get a job in several science fields. He eventually joined the Swiss Patents Office in Bern as an examiner of patent applications and wrote scientific papers during his time off.

Einstein took Swiss nationality in 1901. In 1905, at age 26, he published four papers on the ‘Special Theory of Relativity’ in the German journal Annalen der Physik. These papers broke new ground in physics and included the legendary relation between mass and energy: E = mc-squared. In 1916, he published his work on the General Theory of Relativity. However, it was his work on the photoelectric effect that won Einstein the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity eventually united matter with energy and space with time. His work also helped usher in the age of atomic energy and weapons.

Einstein’s many biographies include Walter Isaacson’s Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007.) Einstein wrote The World As I See It (1934) and Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions (1931; with Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.)

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Inspirational Quotes by Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Love to travel, but hate to arrive.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Hate

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Research

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Law

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Problems, Create, Discovery, Thinking, Think

The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake—the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: War

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Education

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
—Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
—Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Good

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Trying, Mistakes

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Kind, New

If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; if I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Jews

According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people’s education, must serve that end exclusively.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Education

If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Goals

I never think about the future—it comes soon enough.
—Albert Einstein

You never fail until you stop trying.
—Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Love, Romance, People

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Thinking

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.
—Albert Einstein

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Happiness

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Maturity, Solitude

Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet … But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the growing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to ring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Peace

Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Perspective

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Conscience

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Respect, Self Respect, Self-Esteem

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Diet, Vegetarianism, Evolution, Survival

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationships; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Ethics, Behavior

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: God, Gambling

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Society, Life, Success & Failure, Strength, Work, Success

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Communism, Socialism

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Questions, Life, Friends and Friendship, Nature, Tomorrow, Learning, Graduation, Hope

There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom.
—Albert Einstein

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Learning

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.
—Albert Einstein

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Relationships

Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Education

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Goodness

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Knowledge

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking. Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: People, Character

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