“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” — Albert Einstein
“I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.” – Albert Einstein
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” – Albert Einstein
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” — Albert Einstein
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” — Albert Einstein
“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.” — Albert Einstein
“I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.” — Albert Einstein
“God is subtle but he is not malicious.” — Albert Einstein
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” — Albert Einstein
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein
“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.” — Albert Einstein
“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.” — Albert Einstein
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” – Albert Einstein
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.” — Albert Einstein
“We cannot solve the problems we have created with the same thinking that created them.” — Albert Einstein
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” – Albert Einstein
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.” — Albert Einstein
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” – Albert Einstein
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” — Albert Einstein
“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.” – Albert Einstein
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” — Albert Einstein
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” – Albert Einstein
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” — Albert Einstein
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.” — Albert Einstein
“Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.” — Albert Einstein
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” — Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” — Albert Einstein
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” – Albert Einstein
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” – Albert Einstein
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein
“In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.” – Albert Einstein
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.” — Albert Einstein
“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.” – Albert Einstein
“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!” – Albert Einstein
“No, this trick won’t work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?” – Albert Einstein
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” — Albert Einstein
“Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.” – Albert Einstein
“The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” – Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.” — Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all 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.” — Albert Einstein
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” — Albert Einstein
“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.” — Albert Einstein
“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” — Albert Einstein
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.” – Albert Einstein
“One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.” — Albert Einstein
“…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.” – Albert Einstein
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” – Albert Einstein
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” — Albert Einstein
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” (Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton)
“It is best, it seems to me, to separate one’s inner striving from one’s trade as far as possible. It is not good when one’s daily break is tied to God’s special blessing.” — Albert Einstein
“It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a reqime that does not maintain any military secrets.” – Albert Einstein
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” — Albert Einstein
“So long as they don’t get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.” – Albert Einstein
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.” — Albert Einstein
“Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that’s relativity.” — Albert Einstein
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, scince for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despiceable an ignoreable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” — Albert Einstein
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”–Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. — Albert Einstein
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” - Albert Einstein
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied:
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.” – Albert Einstein
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. — Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. – Albert Einstein
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein
“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” –Albert Einstein
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” –Albert Einstein
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” –Albert Einstein
“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.” –Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.” –Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.” –Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” –Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” –A. Einstein
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.” –Einstein, Albert
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” –Einstein, Albert
“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.” –Albert Einstein
“If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.” –Albert Einstein
Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man’s discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.
For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognise our inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citizens an understanding of atomic energy and its implication for society. In this lies our only security and our only hope - we believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. A. Einstein, 1947 d.C.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein(1879 - 1955)
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. Anonymous, Graffito
The gods too are fond of a joke. Aristotle(384 BC - 322 BC)
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. Brenda Ueland
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. Euripides(484 BC - 406 BC),The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. Flavius Josephus(37 AD - 100 AD), Life
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967)
I could prove God statistically. George Gallup(1901 - 1984)
The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. Homer(800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. Homer(800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
If there’s one thing I know it’s God does love a good joke. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Indian Proverb
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? Irv Kupcinet
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King Jr.(1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. Noam Chomsky (1928 - ), in a television interview
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), “Profiles of The Future”, 1961 (Clarke’s third law)
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it. Max Frisch
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. Putt’s Law
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman(1918 - 1988)
The computing field is always in need of new cliches. Alan Perlis
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done. Andy Rooney(1919 - )
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier. Bill Gates(1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee — that will do them in. Bradley’s Bromide
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? Clifford Stoll
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. Doug Larson
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. E. W. Dijkstra
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. Edward Shepherd Mead
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. Farmers’ Almanac, 1978
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Isaac Asimov(1920 - 1992)
Silence is a text easy to misread. A. Attanasio, ‘The Eagle and the Sword’
‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak. Ausonius
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. Blaise Pascal(1623 - 1662)
Oppression can only survive through silence. Carmen de Monteflores
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. Cato the Elder(234 BC - 149 BC)
Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti(1830 - 1894)
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,…silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It’s totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992
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