Einstein quotes - this is a great opportunity to touch the world of a brilliant scientist. This is all the more interesting because Albert Einstein is one of the most famous and recognizable scientists in history.
By the way, pay attention to the interesting stories from the life of Einstein. There you will find many funny and unusual situations that happened to Einstein throughout his life.
Here we have collected the most interesting quotes, aphorisms and statements of Einstein. We hope that you can not only benefit from the deep thoughts of the great scientist, but also appreciate his famous humor.
So, here are selected Einstein quotes.
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Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But not at all.
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Anyone who wants to see the results of his labor immediately should go to shoemakers.
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Theory is when everything is known, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but nobody knows why. We combine theory and practice: nothing works ... and no one knows why!
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There are only two infinite things: the universe and stupidity. I'm not sure about the universe though.
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Everyone knows this is impossible. But here comes an ignoramus who does not know this - it is he who makes the discovery.
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Women get married hoping that men will change. Men get married, hoping that women will never change. Both are disappointed.
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Common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.
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Perfect means with unclear goals are a characteristic feature of our time.
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Einstein's quote below is essentially a formulation of the Occam's Razor principle:
Everything should be simplified as long as possible. But nothing more.
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I do not know what kind of weapons the third world war will be fought with, but the fourth - with sticks and stones.
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Only a fool needs order - genius dominates chaos.
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There are only two ways to live life. The first is that miracles don't exist. The second - as if there were only miracles around.
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Education is what remains after you forget everything you learned in school.
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Dostoevsky gave me more than any scientific thinker, more than Gauss.
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We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life, considering itself a fool.
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Only those who make absurd attempts can achieve the impossible.
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The more my fame, the more I become dull; and this is undoubtedly the general rule.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while the imagination spans the whole world, stimulating progress.
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You will never solve a problem if you think in the same way as those who created it.
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If the theory of relativity is confirmed, the Germans will say that I am German, and the French - that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is disproved, the French will declare me a German and the Germans a Jew.
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Mathematics is the only perfect way to lead yourself by the nose.
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To punish me for my aversion to authority, fate made me an authority.
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There is a lot to say about relatives ... and it must be said, because you cannot print.
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Take a completely uncivilized Indian. Will his life experience be less rich and less happy than the experience of the average civilized person? I don't think so. The deep meaning lies in the fact that children in all civilized countries love to play with Indians.
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Human freedom is similar to solving a crossword puzzle: theoretically, you can enter any word, but in fact you have to write only one for the crossword puzzle to be solved.
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No end is high enough to justify an unworthy means of achieving it.
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Through coincidences, God maintains anonymity.
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The only thing that prevents me from studying is the education I received.
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I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
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Logic will take you from point A to point B. Imagination will take you anywhere.
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Never memorize what you can find in a book.
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It's just crazy to do the same and wait for different results.
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you have to move.
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The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to the former.
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If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.
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And this quote from Einstein was already in a selection of quotes about the meaning of life:
Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.
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If people are good only out of fear of punishment and desire for reward, then we are truly pathetic creatures.
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A person who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new.
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All people lie, but this is not scary, because no one listens to each other.
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If you cannot explain this to your grandmother, you yourself do not understand it.
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I never think about the future. It comes too quickly.
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I am grateful to all those who said no to me. Only thanks to them I have achieved something myself.
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If A is success in life, then A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is your ability to keep your mouth shut.
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The secret to creativity is the ability to hide the sources of your inspiration.
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As I study myself and my way of thinking, I come to the conclusion that the gift of imagination and fantasy meant more to me than any ability to think abstractly.
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My faith consists in humble worship of the Spirit, incomparably superior to us and revealed to us in the little that we are able to cognize with our weak, perishable mind.
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I learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later.
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There is only one path to greatness, and that path is through suffering.
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Morality is the basis of all human values.
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The goal of the school should be to educate a harmonious personality, not a specialist.
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International laws exist only in collections of international laws.
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One journalist, holding a notebook and pencil, asked Einstein if he had a notebook where he wrote down his great thoughts. To this Einstein said his famous phrase:
Truly great thoughts come to mind so rarely that they are not at all difficult to remember.
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The worst evil of capitalism, I think, is that it cripples the individual. Our entire education system suffers from this evil. The student is hammered into a "competitive" approach to everything in the world, he is taught to achieve success by any means. It is believed that this will help him in his future career.
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The most beautiful thing that we can experience is a sense of mystery. She is the source of all true art and science. He who has never experienced this feeling, who does not know how to stop and think, seized with timid delight, he is like a dead man, and his eyes are closed. Penetration into the mystery of life, coupled with fear, gave impetus to the emergence of religion. To know that the incomprehensible really exists, manifesting itself through the greatest wisdom and the most perfect beauty, which our limited abilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is the basis of true religiosity.
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No amount of experiments can prove a theory, but one experiment is enough to refute it.
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In 1945, when World War II ended and Nazi Germany signed the act of unconditional surrender, Einstein said:
The war has been won, but not the peace.
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I am convinced that murder under the pretext of war does not cease to be murder.
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Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the pursuit of truth and understanding. But the source of this feeling comes from the realm of religion. From the same place - the belief in the possibility that the rules of this world are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot imagine a real scientist without a strong belief in this. Figuratively the situation can be described as follows: science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind.
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The only thing that my long life taught me: that all our science in the face of reality looks primitive and childishly naive. And yet this is the most valuable thing we have.
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Religion, art and science are branches of the same tree.
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One day you stop learning and you start dying.
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Do not deify the intellect. He has mighty muscles, but no face.
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Anyone who is seriously engaged in science comes to the realization that in the laws of nature there is a Spirit that is much higher than a human - a Spirit, in the face of which we, with our limited powers, must feel our own weakness. In this sense, scientific research leads to a religious feeling of a special kind, which really differs in many ways from the more naive religiosity.
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