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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)

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Ability, Curiosity

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.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Science, Reality, Mathematics

Politics is far more complicated than physics.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Politics

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Future, The Future, Tomorrow, Live-now, The Past

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes—goodwill among men and peace on earth.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Change

The man of science is a poor philosopher.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Philosophy, Science

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Curiosity

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Education

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow—perhaps it all will.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Results

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
—Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Human Nature, Stupidity, Miscellaneous, Ignorance, Defects, Universe

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Talent, Curiosity, Endurance

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Attention, Kisses, Driving

Before God we are equally wise—and equally foolish.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Wisdom

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Soul

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Morality, Ethics, Morals

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Vice

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

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

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. … To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong in the ranks of devoutly religious men.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Faith, Science, Wonder, Imagination, Inner-child, Beauty, Dreams, Mystery, Death, Dying, Life, Religion

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Excellence, Mastery

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: The Mind, Mind

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

The environment is everything that isn’t me.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Nature

Love is a better teacher than duty.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Duty, Love

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: General

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Reality

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Simplicity, Realism, Wisdom

It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase mans blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors; concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Love

One needn’t be a crank to miss the scientific boat. The very paragon of genius, Albert Einstein, couldn’t be persuaded to give quantum physics his unreserved endorsement. Here is Einstein’s most frequently paraphrased statement of dissatisfaction with the theory: Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn’t play dice.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Science

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