 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 whatone has recognized to be true. – Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
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Category Archives: Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein – The way to learn the most
| That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.
– 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 – 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 we knew what we were doing
| If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it?
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – Imagination circles the world
| I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – Whoever is careless with the truth
| Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – An hour seems like a second
| When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – If a cluttered desk is a sign . . .
| If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
– 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 – The world is a dangerous place to live
| The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Albert Einstein – Refresh and revivify older people
| Something there is that can refresh and revivify older people: joy in the activities of the younger generation — a joy, to be sure, that is clouded by dark forebodings in these unsettled times. And yet, as always, the springtime sun brings forth new life, and we may rejoice because of this new life and contribute to its unfolding; and Mozart remains as beautiful and tender as he always was and always will be. There is, after all, something eternal that lies beyond the hand of fate and of all human delusions. And such eternals lie closer to an older person than to a younger one oscillating between fear and hope. For us, there remains the privilege of experiencing beauty and truth in their purest forms.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
