 If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
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Category Archives: Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein – To punish me for my contempt
| To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – A goal of comfort
| The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – Academic freedom and duty
| By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. – Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – If you want your children to be intelligent
| If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – Beauty of the mysterious
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the Mysterious — the knowledge of the existence of something unfathomable to us, the manifestation of the most profound reason coupled with the most brilliant beauty. I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, or who has a will of the kind we experience in ourselves. I am satisfied with the mystery of life’s eternity and with the awareness of — and glimpse into — the marvelous construction of the existing world together with the steadfast determination to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – Everybody is a genius
| Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – If I were not a physicist
| If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – The value of a college education
| The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – The utter inadequacy of intelligence
| As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – If my theory of relativity is successful
| If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – Attachment to any state or national entity
| I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
