Albert Einstein - the best quotes from the brilliant physicist. Albert Einstein: aphorisms, quotes, sayings
“There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second one is like there are only miracles all around.”
“There are only two infinite things: the Universe and stupidity. Although I’m not entirely sure about the Universe.”
“For the simpletons, Einstein explained his theory of relativity as follows: “This is when Zurich stops at this train.”
“The only thing that can guide us to noble thoughts and actions is the example of great and morally pure individuals.”
"In my youth I discovered that thumb feet sooner or later makes a hole in the sock. So I stopped wearing socks."
“A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.”
“No amount of experimentation can prove a theory; but one experiment is enough to refute it.”
“The life of an individual has meaning only to the extent that it helps to make the lives of other people more beautiful and noble. Life is sacred; it is, so to speak, the supreme value to which all other values are subordinated.”
“It is impossible to solve a problem at the same level at which it arose. We need to rise above this problem by rising to the next level.”
“Man is a part of the whole, which we call the Universe, a part limited in time and space.”
“Every person is obliged to at least return to the world as much as he took from it.”
“Nothing of value can be born from ambition or a sense of duty. Values arise through love and devotion to people and the objective realities of this world.”
“The world cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved through understanding.”
“The real progress of mankind depends not so much on the inventive mind as on consciousness.”
“There is only one path to greatness, and that path is through suffering.”
“Morality is the basis of all human values.”
“It is time to replace the ideal of success with the ideal of service.”
“A person can find meaning in life only by devoting himself to society.”
“The purpose of school should always be to educate harmonious personality, not a specialist."
“Ethical behavior should be based on sympathy for people, education and social connections; there is no need for a religious basis at all.”
“Only the life that is lived for the sake of other people is worthy.”
“The true value of a person is determined by the extent to which he has freed himself from selfishness and by what means he has achieved this.”
“Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.”
“I don’t know with what weapons they will fight in the 3rd World War, but in the 4th World War they will fight with sticks and stones.”
“Marriage is an attempt to create something lasting and lasting out of a random episode.”
“The Lord God calculates differentials empirically.”
“The process of scientific discovery is, in essence, a continuous flight from miracles.”
"The only thing my long life: that all our science in the face of reality looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet it is the most valuable thing we have.”
"If you want to lead happy life, you must be attached to the goal, not to people or things."
“If the theory of relativity is confirmed, the Germans will say that I am a German, and the French will say that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is refuted, the French will declare me a German, and the Germans a Jew.”
“Common sense is the sum of prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen.”
“Nationalism is a childhood disease. This is the measles of humanity."
“The war has been won, but not the peace.”
“It’s very simple, my dears: because politics is much more complicated than physics!”
“International laws exist only in collections of international laws.”
“People cause me seasickness, not the sea. But I’m afraid science has not yet found a cure for this disease.”
“It is not easy to say what the truth is, but lies are often easy to recognize.”
“Whoever wants to see the results of his labor immediately should become a shoemaker.”
“You will never solve a problem if you think like those who created it.”
“A scientist is like a mimosa when he notices his own mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers someone else’s mistake.”
“What can a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?”
“I have learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later.”
“My husband is a genius! He knows how to do absolutely everything except money. (A. Einstein’s wife about him)"
“I want to be cremated so people don’t come to worship my bones.”
“I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.”
“The greater my fame, the more stupid I become; and this is undoubtedly the general rule.”
“Our mathematical difficulties do not bother God. He integrates empirically."
“You shouldn’t deify the intellect. He has powerful muscles, but no face."
“Mathematics is the most perfect way to fool yourself.”
“Since mathematicians took up the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.”
“It has often happened in physics that significant success has been achieved by drawing consistent analogies between apparently unrelated phenomena.”
“The main thing in the life of a person of my type is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or experiences.”
“It is amazingly possible to master a subject mathematically without understanding the essence of the matter.”
“All ideas in science are born out of a dramatic conflict between reality and our attempts to understand it.”
“The Lord God does not play dice.”
“The Lord God is subtle, but not malicious.”
“Everyone knows that this is impossible. But then an ignoramus comes along, who doesn’t know this, and he makes the discovery.”
“The laws of mathematics that have any relation to the real world are unreliable; and reliable mathematical laws have no relation to the real world.”
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
“If you don’t sin against reason, you can’t come to anything at all.”
“Everything should be stated as simply as possible, but not simpler.”
“Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
A. Einstein (1879-1955) -theoretical physicist, creator of the theory of relativity and one of the creators of quantum theory, Nobel Prize laureate
I don't have any special talents.
I'm just passionately curious.
There are only two infinite things: the Universe and stupidity.
Although I'm not entirely sure about the Universe.
Education is what remains after everything that was taught at school is forgotten.
Any fool can know. The trick is to understand.
Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But it's not like that at all...
Everyone knows from childhood that such and such is impossible.
But there is always an ignoramus who does not know this.
It is he who makes the discovery.
Logic can take you from point A to point B, and imagination can take you anywhere...
The difference between past, present and future is only an illusion
Common sense is the sum of prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen
Only a few are able to express opinions that diverge from the prejudices of the environment,
the majority of people are generally incapable of coming to such opinions.
Power always attracts people of low moral character.
Those who joyfully march in formation received the brain by mistake: for them, the spinal cord would have been enough.
I so hate heroism on command, senseless cruelty and what is united under the word “patriotism” that I would rather allow myself to be torn to pieces than be part of such actions.
The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits.
The main thing is not to stop asking questions...
The question that puzzles me is:
Am I crazy or is everyone around me?
Table, chair, fruit plate and violin -
What else does a person need to be happy?
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To maintain balance, you need to keep moving.
I thought and thought for months and years.
Ninety-nine times my conclusions were wrong.
But for the hundredth time I was right.
Never memorize anything you can find in a book.
If at first the idea does not seem absurd, it is hopeless.
Any intelligent fool is capable of inflating, complicating and aggravating. To do the opposite requires at least a little genius - and a lot of courage.
Learn from yesterday, live today, hope for tomorrow.
The main thing is not to stop asking questions...
Never lose your sacred curiosity.
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old child, you don't understand it yourself.
If you want your children to be smart, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be even smarter, read them even more fairy tales.
Wisdom is not the result of education, but the result of a lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Most people argue that a great scientist is first and foremost an intellect.
They are mistaken: it is primarily character.
If A is success in life, then A = X + Y + Z, where: X is work, Y is passion, Z is a tightly closed mouth.
A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.
I am enough of an artist to be able to draw freely in my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, but imagination embraces the entire Universe, pushing progress, giving rise to evolution.
The gift of fantasy means more to me than the ability to absorb positive knowledge.
The only truly valuable quality is intuition. On the path to discovery, the role of intelligence is insignificant.
Only daring guesses, and not the accumulation of facts, can lead us to success.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulate creative thinking.
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid.
Morality is of the greatest importance - not for God, but for us.
A person must learn to understand the motives of his own kind, their illusions and their suffering.
Peace cannot be maintained by force.
Peace can only be achieved through understanding.
Never act against your conscience, even if state interests require it.
Attempts to combine wisdom and power were rarely successful - and even then only for a short time.
Truth is that which stands the test of experience.
Mathematics is the only perfect method that allows you to fool yourself by the nose.
There is always an element of poetry in scientific thinking. Real science and real music require a homogeneous thought process.
Science is a drama of ideas.
While a mathematical law reflects reality, it is not exact; Once a mathematical law is precise, it does not reflect actual reality.
The most incomprehensible thing in our world is that it is still understandable.
Fantasy is more important than knowledge.
The goal of all the activities of the intellect is to transform some “miracle” into something comprehensible...
No problem can be solved at the same level at which it arose.
Never act against your conscience, even if state interests require it.
Finding the truth is more important than having the truth.
I feel so in solidarity with all living things that it makes no difference to me where the individual begins and ends.
Nationalism is a childhood disease, the measles of humanity.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Mathematics is the only perfect method for fooling yourself.
Our math difficulties don't bother God.
He integrates empirically.
Since mathematicians took up the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.
No amount of experimentation can prove a theory; but one experiment is enough to refute it.
The intellect should not be deified.
He has powerful muscles, but no face.
INTERESTING FACTS from the life of Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein's wife was once asked:
- Do you know Einstein's theory of relativity?
“Not really,” she admitted. - But no one in the world knows Einstein himself better than me.
Einstein's wife was once asked what she thought of her husband.
She replied: “My husband is a genius! He knows how to do absolutely everything except money!”…
Once at a lecture, Einstein was asked how great discoveries are made. He thought for a moment and replied:
“Let’s say that all educated people know that something cannot be done. However, there is one ignoramus who does not know this. He makes the discovery!”
When Einstein was visiting the Curies, he noticed, sitting in the living room, that out of respect no one sat in the chairs next to him. Then he turned to the owner Joliot-Curie:
“Sit next to me, Frederick! Otherwise it seems to me that I am present at a meeting of the Prussian Academy of Sciences!”
Edison once complained to Einstein that he couldn’t find an assistant. Einstein asked how he determined their suitability. In response, Edison showed him several sheets of questions. Einstein began to read them:
"How many miles from New York to Chicago?" - and answered:
“We need to look at the railway directory.”
He read next question: "What is stainless steel made of?" - and answered:
“You can find this out in a metallurgical reference book.”
Quickly looking through the rest of the questions, Einstein put the papers aside and said:
“Without waiting for a refusal, I withdraw my candidacy myself.”
An American journalist, a certain Miss Thompson, interviewed Einstein:
"What is the difference between time and eternity?"
Einstein replied:
"If I had time to explain the difference between these concepts, it would take forever before you would understand it."
Once Albert Einstein and the famous cellist Grigory Pyatigorsky performed together at a charity concert. There was a young journalist sitting in the audience who was supposed to write a report about the concert. He addressed a question to one of the listeners:
- Excuse me, we all know Pyatigorsky, but this Einstein, who is speaking today...
- My God, don’t you know, this is the great Einstein!
“Yes, of course, thank you,” the journalist became embarrassed and began to scribble something in a notebook.
The next day, a report appeared in the newspaper about Pyatigorsky's performance together with Einstein - a great musician, an incomparable virtuoso violinist, who eclipsed Pyatigorsky himself with his brilliant playing. The review made everyone laugh a lot, especially Einstein. He cut out the note and carried it with him all the time, showed it to his friends and said:
- Do you think I'm a scientist? No, I'm a famous violinist, that's who I really am!
One day Einstein was at a reception with King Albert of Belgium. After tea there was a small amateur concert in which the Queen of Belgium took part. After the concert, Einstein approached the queen:
“Your Majesty, you played excellently! Tell me, why else do you need the profession of a queen?”
One lively journalist, holding a notebook and pencil, asked Einstein:
“Do you have a notebook or notebook where you write down your great thoughts?”
Einstein looked at him and said:
“Young man! Truly great thoughts come to mind so rarely that they are not difficult to remember.”
One lady friend asked Einstein to call her, but warned that her phone number was very difficult to remember: “24-361. Remember? Repeat!”
Einstein was surprised:
“Of course I remember! Two dozen, and 19 squared!”
Einstein loved Charlie Chaplin's films and great sympathy treated both him and his touching characters. One day he sent Chaplin a telegram:
"Your film "Gold Rush" is understood by everyone in the world, and I am sure that you will become a great man! Einstein."
Chaplin replied:
“I admire you even more. No one in the world understands your theory of relativity, but you still became a great man! Chaplin.”
When Einstein was visiting one day, it started to rain outside. The owners offered the leaving scientist a hat, but he refused:
“Why do I need a hat? I knew it would rain, so I didn’t take my hat. It’s obvious that the hat will take much longer to dry than my hair.”
One day, Einstein was walking along the corridor of Princeton, and a young and very untalented physicist met him. Having caught up with Eintain, he tapped him familiarly on the shoulder and asked patronizingly:
- How are you, colleague?
- Colleague? - Einstein asked in surprise. - Are you also suffering from rheumatism?
In the summer of 1909, in honor of its 350th anniversary, the University of Geneva, founded by Calvin, awarded more than a hundred honorary doctorates. One of them was intended for an employee of the Swiss Patent Office in Bern - Albert Einstein.
When Einstein received a large envelope, in which was enclosed a sheet of magnificent paper filled with some colorful text in an incomprehensible language, he decided that it was Latin (in fact it was French), moreover, the recipient was a certain Tinstein, and our hero sent the paper into the trash can.
He later learned that it was an invitation to Calvin's celebrations and a notification of the award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva.
Since Einstein did not respond to the invitation, the university authorities turned to Einstein’s friend Lucien Chavant, who was able to convince Einstein to come to Geneva. But Einstein still knew nothing about the purpose of his trip and arrived in Geneva in a straw hat and casual jacket, in which he had to participate in the academic procession.
Here is what Einstein himself says about this case:
“The celebration ended with the most sumptuous feast I have ever attended. I asked one of the Genevan “city fathers” with whom I was sitting next:
"Do you know what Calvin would do if he were here?"
The neighbor was curious - what exactly? Then I replied:
“He would start a fire and burn us all for the sin of gluttony!”
My interlocutor did not make a sound, and this ends my memories of the glorious celebration...”
One day, getting on a Berlin tram, Einstein, out of habit, began to read. Then, without looking at the conductor, he took out from his pocket the money that had been calculated in advance for the ticket.
“There’s not enough here,” said the conductor.
“It can’t be,” answered the scientist, without looking up from the book.
- And I’m telling you - it’s not enough.
Einstein shook his head again, saying, this can’t be. The conductor was indignant:
- Then count, here - 15 pfennigs. So five more are missing.
Einstein rummaged in his pocket and actually found the right coin. He felt embarrassed, but the conductor, smiling, said:
- Nothing, grandfather, you just need to learn arithmetic.
In 1898, Einstein wrote to his sister Maya:
“I have to work a lot, but still not too much. From time to time I manage to find an hour and laze around in the picturesque surroundings of Zurich... If everyone lived like me, there would be no adventure novels...”
One day Einstein was walking down the street, thoughtfully, and met his friend. He invited him to his home:
"Come to me in the evening, Professor Stimson will be with me."
The friend was surprised:
“But I am Stimson!”
Einstein responded:
"It doesn't matter - come anyway."
Einstein was famous for sometimes making notes on anything he could get his hands on (so he wouldn't miss a thought). Once he and his wife were invited to the opening of a new astronomical telescope. After the opening they were given a short tour. The guide who accompanied them, pointing to the telescope, said: With the help of this device we are discovering the secrets of the universe, to which Einstein’s wife immediately remarked:
- It’s strange, but for my husband all it takes is a stub of a pencil and a piece of paper...
Einstein once gave a presentation at a tense scientific conference. At the end of the conference, the organizers asked the scientist which moment of the conference was the most difficult for him.
Einstein replied:
“The biggest difficulty was to wake up the audience, which had fallen asleep after the speech of the chairman introducing me to the audience.”
Einstein completed his general theory of relativity in 1915, but world fame came to him only in 1919, when, after processing observational data solar eclipse, Arthur Eddington and other English scientists confirmed the effect of deflection of light rays in a gravitational field predicted by the theory.
No one cared then, and even now few people are interested, in the fact that this effect was confirmed only qualitatively, and quantitative estimates of the displacement of the light beam differed by almost an order of magnitude from those predicted by theory. The point was the novelty of the discovery of the effect itself.
Einstein himself reacted to worldwide fame quite calmly and wrote in a Christmas card to his friend Heinrich Sanger:
“Fame makes me stupider and stupider, which, however, is quite common. There is a huge gap between what a person is and what others think about him or, at least, say out loud. But all this must be accepted without malice "
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Copyright: aphorisms quotes from 20th century authors
God
God doesn't play dice.
Our math difficulties don't bother God. He integrates empirically.
Before God, we are all equally wise - or equally foolish.
The Lord God is sophisticated, but not malicious.
Through coincidences, God maintains anonymity.
marriage
Marriage is an unsuccessful attempt to turn a random episode into something lasting.
possibilities
Opportunity lurks amid difficulties and problems.
war
The war has been won, but not the peace.
I don't know what weapon the third one will be fought with World War, but it is quite obvious that the fourth - only with sticks and stones.
time
The only reason for time to exist is to prevent everything from happening at once.
stupidity
Only the Universe and human stupidity are infinite, and I have doubts about the infinity of the first of them.
life
Only the life that is lived for the sake of other people is worthy.
If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.
Life is sacred; it is, so to speak, the supreme value to which all other values are subordinated.
A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.
laws
The laws of mathematics that have any relation to the real world are unreliable; and reliable mathematical laws have no relation to the real world.
International laws exist only in collections of international laws.
knowledge
How much we know and how little we understand.
Little knowledge is a dangerous thing, as is great knowledge.
ideal
It is high time to replace the ideal of success with the ideal of service.
The ideals that illuminated my path and gave me courage and courage were goodness, beauty and truth.
true
Truth is that which stands the test of experience.
Finding the truth is more important than having the truth.
I find it especially important to share in various ways comprehension of the truth. By this I mean that our moral inclinations and tastes, our sense of beauty and religious instincts contribute to help our mental faculty to reach its highest achievements.
logics
Logic can take you from point A to point B, but imagination can take you anywhere.
lie
It is not easy to say what the truth is, but lies are often easy to recognize.
People
If people are good only because they fear punishment and desire reward, then we are truly pathetic creatures.
world
The eternal mystery of the world is its knowability. The very fact of this knowability seems like a miracle.
The most incomprehensible thing about this world is that it is comprehensible.
morality
Moral qualities wonderful person have higher value for his generation and for the historical process than purely intellectual achievements. These latter themselves depend on the greatness of the spirit, a greatness that usually remains unknown.
the science
Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the desire for truth and understanding. But the source of this feeling originates from the field of religion. From there comes 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. The situation can be described figuratively as follows: science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind.
The only thing my long life has taught me is that all our science, in the face of reality, looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet it is the most valuable thing we have.
One of the criteria of truth scientific knowledge- internal perfection of the theory.
The process of scientific discovery is, in essence, a continuous flight from miracles.
There is always an element of poetry in scientific thinking. Real science and real music require a homogeneous thought process.
Science is not and will never be a finished book. Every important success brings new questions. Every development reveals new and deeper difficulties over time.
Science is a drama of ideas.
moral
The only thing that can direct us to noble thoughts and actions is the example of great and morally pure individuals.
About Me
I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
I am a deeply religious atheist. You could say that this is a kind of new religion.
education
The only thing that prevents me from studying is the education I received.
nature
I have never ascribed to Nature any purpose, purpose, or anything that can be given an anthropomorphic interpretation. Nature is a majestic building, which we are only able to comprehend very incompletely and which excites the soul. thinking man a sense of humble humility. This truly reverent feeling has nothing in common with mysticism.
Problems
No problem can be solved at the same level at which it arose.
progress
The real progress of mankind depends not so much on the inventive mind as on consciousness.
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
religion
Religion, Art and Science are branches of the same tree.
The further the spiritual evolution of humanity advances, the more obvious it seems to me that the path to true religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, the fear of death or blind faith, but through the desire for rational knowledge.
Liberty
Human freedom in modern world is similar to the freedom of a person solving a crossword puzzle: theoretically, he can write in any word, but in reality he only has to write in one for the crossword puzzle to be solved.
force
Power always attracts people of low moral character.
glory
The greater my fame, the more stupid I become; and this is undoubtedly the general rule.
words
Words were and remain empty words; and, serving the ideal only in words, it is impossible to die for it. But personality is created not by what a person hears and speaks, but by labor and activity.
death
After all, dying isn't bad either.
I learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later.
conscience
Never act against your conscience, even if state interests require it.
happiness
If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.
work
Anyone who wants to see the results of their labor immediately should become a shoemaker.
mind
The goal of all the activities of the intellect is to transform some “miracle” into something comprehensible.
doctrine
The only smart way to teach people is to lead by example.
scientists
Since we scientists are destined for the tragic fate of further increasing the monstrous effectiveness of the means of destruction, it is our most solemn and noble duty to prevent with all our might the use of these weapons for the cruel purposes for which they were invented.
A scientist is like a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake in others.
target
No goal is so high as to justify unworthy means to achieve it.
values
Nothing of value can be born from ambition or a sense of duty. Values arise through love and devotion to people and the objective realities of this world.
Human
Every person is obliged to at least return to the world as much as he took from it.
A person can find meaning in life only by devoting himself to society.
A happy person is too satisfied with the present to think too much about the future.
Man is a part of the whole, which we call the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He feels himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest of the world, which is a kind of optical illusion. This illusion has become a prison for us, limiting us to the world own desires and affection for to a narrow circle people close to us. Our task is to free ourselves from this prison, expanding the sphere of our participation to every living being, to the whole world, in all its splendor. No one will be able to complete such a task to the end, but the very attempts to achieve this goal are part of the liberation and the basis for inner confidence.
humanity
Humanity has every reason to value the proponents of moral values higher than the discoverers of scientific truths.
ethics
A person's ethical behavior should be based on empathy, education, and public relations. No religious basis is required for this.
on other topics
Gives me more than any scientific thinker, more than Gauss.
The most difficult thing in the world to understand is income tax.
In response to the question why people were able to create atomic weapons, but cannot establish control over them: - It is very simple, my dears: because politics is much more complex than physics.
In my youth I discovered that my big toe would eventually make a hole in my sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
Great personalities always encounter fierce opposition from mediocre minds.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited while imagination is expansive the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to evolution.
The question that puzzles me is: “Am I crazy or everyone else?”
Everything is very simple. All people believe that this is impossible to do. But there is one brave soul who disagrees with this.
Everything should be simplified as much as possible, but no more.
Do you really think that the moon only exists when you look at it?
Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But not at all like that.
Outstanding personalities are not formed through beautiful speeches, but by one’s own labor and its results.
Highest musicality in the field of thought.
The highest task of a physicist is to search for such highest degree universal laws from which, using pure deduction, one can obtain a picture of the world. There is no logical path leading to such laws. They can only be obtained through intuition, based on a phenomenon similar to intellectual love for the objects of experience.
Two types of soap are too difficult for me.
If I knew that I was going to die in three hours, it wouldn't make much of an impression on me. I would think about how best to use those three hours.
If by philosophy we understand the search for knowledge in its most general and broadest form, then it can obviously be considered the mother of all scientific searches. But it is also true that the various branches of science in turn have a strong influence on those scientists who study them, and, in addition, have a strong influence on the philosophical thinking of each generation.
If the theory of relativity is confirmed, then the Germans will say that I am a German, and the French will say that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is refuted, the French will declare me a German, and the Germans a Jew.
Why should I remember something when I can easily look it up in a book.
Common sense is the sum of prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen.
The idea of a personified deity has never been close to me and seems rather naive.
When a blind bug crawls along the plane of the ball, it does not notice that the path it takes is curved. I managed to notice this.
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 for abstract thinking. Dreaming about everything you could achieve in life is important element positive life. Let your imagination wander freely and create a world in which you would like to live.
Mathematics is the most perfect way to fool yourself.
My husband is a genius! He knows how to do absolutely everything except money.
People cause me seasickness, not the sea. But I'm afraid science has not yet found a cure for this disease.
Nationalism is a childhood disease. This is the measles of humanity.
Our situation on Earth is truly amazing. Everyone appears on it for a short moment, without a clear goal, although some manage to come up with a goal. But from the point of view of everyday life, one thing is obvious: we live for other people - and most of all for those on whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
The intellect should not be deified. He has powerful muscles, but no face.
No amount of experimentation can prove a theory; but one experiment is enough to refute it.
Nobody itches unless they itch.
Nothing will bring such benefits to human health and increase the chances of preserving life on Earth as the spread of vegetarianism.
I fear that the day will definitely come when technology will surpass simple human communication. Then the world will get a generation of idiots.
The liberated energy of the atomic nucleus has called into question many things, including our way of thinking. If man remains unable to think in new ways, we will inevitably move towards an unprecedented catastrophe.
The pioneers of a world without war are young people who refuse to serve in the army.
With such harmony in the cosmos, which I, with my limited human mind, am able to comprehend, there are still people who say that there is no God. But what really angers me is that they quote me in support of such views.
Forgive me, Newton.
Solving physical problems is child's play compared to scientific and psychological research into children's play.
The word "God" is to me only a manifestation and product of human weaknesses, and the Bible is a collection of venerable, but still primitive legends, which, nevertheless, are rather childish. No interpretation, even the most sophisticated one, can change this (for me).
Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.
Perfect means for unclear ends - characteristic feature our time.
Reports about my religiosity are completely false. A lie that is persistently repeated! I don't believe in a personalized God. I expressed my attitude towards God clearly and never renounced my words. If any of my statements may seem religious to someone, then this is probably my boundless admiration for the structure of the universe, as far as our science can comprehend it.
The ability to perceive what is incomprehensible to our minds, what is hidden under direct experiences, whose beauty and perfection reaches us only in the form of a reflected weak echo, is religiosity. In this sense, I am religious." In this sense, I am also religious, with the exception that “incomprehensible” does not mean “closed to comprehension.”
Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.
Theory is when everything is known, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why. We combine theory and practice: nothing works and no one knows why!
Only those who make absurd attempts will be able to achieve the impossible.
Anyone who happily marches to the music in formation has already earned my contempt. He was endowed with a brain by mistake; it would have been enough for him to spinal cord. This disgrace to civilization must end. Heroism on command, senseless cruelty and disgusting senselessness called patriotism - how much I hate all this, how low and vile war is. I would rather be torn to pieces than be part of this dirty act. I am convinced that murder under the pretext of war does not cease to be murder.
I do not believe in a God who rewards and punishes, in a God whose goals are molded from our human goals. I do not believe in the immortality of the soul, although weak minds, obsessed with fear or absurd selfishness, find refuge in such a belief.
I never think about the future. It comes on its own soon enough.
I want to be cremated so people don't come to worship my bones.
I feel so in solidarity with all living things that it makes no difference to me where the individual begins and ends.
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Once, in correspondence with Charlie Chaplin, Einstein admiringly remarked: “Your film “Gold Rush” is understood throughout the world, and you will certainly become a great man.” Chaplin answered him: “I admire you even more. Nobody understands your theory of relativity, but you still became a great man.”
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- There are only two infinite things: the Universe and stupidity. Although I'm not sure about the Universe.
- Only a fool needs order - genius rules over chaos.
- Theory is when everything is known, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why. We combine theory and practice: nothing works... and no one knows why!
- There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second one is like there are only miracles all around.
- Education is what remains after everything learned at school is forgotten.
- We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid.
- Only those who make absurd attempts will be able to achieve the impossible.
- I don’t know with what weapons the third world war will be fought, but the fourth will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to evolution.
- There is no point in continuing to do the same thing and expect different results.
- You will never solve a problem if you think the same way as those who created it.
- Anyone who wants to see the results of their labor immediately should become a shoemaker.
- Everyone knows that this is impossible. But then comes an ignorant person who doesn’t know this - he makes a discovery.
- Life is like driving a bicycle. To maintain balance, you must move.
- The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits.
- People cause me seasickness, not the sea. But I'm afraid science has not yet found a cure for this disease.
- A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.
- Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.
- Mathematics is the only perfect method for fooling yourself.
- The greater my fame, the more stupid I become; and this is undoubtedly the general rule.
- If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.
- International laws exist only in collections of international laws.
- Through coincidences, God maintains anonymity.
- The only thing that prevents me from studying is the education I received.
- I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
- The question that puzzles me is: am I crazy or is everything around me?
- I never think about the future. It comes on its own soon enough.
- The most incomprehensible thing about this world is that it is comprehensible.
- A person who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new.
- All people lie, but it’s not scary, no one listens to each other.
- If the theory of relativity is confirmed, then the Germans will say that I am a German, and the French will say that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is refuted, the French will declare me a German, and the Germans a Jew.
- Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But not at all like that.
- Imagination is the most important thing, it is a reflection of what we attract into our lives.
- I'm too crazy not to be a genius.
- To break through a wall with your forehead, you need either a long run-up or many foreheads.
- If you can't explain something to a six-year-old child, you don't understand it yourself.
- Logic can take you from point A to point B, and imagination can take you anywhere...
- To win, you first need to play.
- Never memorize anything you can find in a book.
- If a cluttered desk means a cluttered mind, then what does an empty desk mean?
Theoretical physicist, one of the founders of modern theoretical physics, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, public figure and humanist. Lived in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Honorary doctor of about 20 leading universities in the world, member of many Academies of Sciences, including a foreign honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Special theory of relativity (1905).
Within its framework is the law of the relationship between mass and energy: ( E = mc2).
General theory of relativity (1907-1916).
Quantum theory of the photoelectric effect.
Quantum theory of heat capacity.
Quantum statistics of Bose - Einstein.
Statistical theory of Brownian motion, which laid the foundations of the theory of fluctuations.
Theory of stimulated emission.
Theory of light scattering by thermodynamic fluctuations in a medium.
He also predicted gravitational waves and "quantum teleportation", and predicted and measured the Einstein-de Haas gyromagnetic effect. Since 1933, he worked on problems of cosmology and unified field theory. He actively opposed war, against the use of nuclear weapons, for humanism, respect for human rights, and mutual understanding between peoples.
Quotes, aphorisms and sayings
Those who have never made mistakes have never tried something new.
There are only two infinite things: the Universe and stupidity. Although I'm not sure about the Universe.
Everyone knows that this is impossible. But then comes an ignorant person who doesn’t know this - he makes a discovery.
The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits.
I don’t know with what weapons the third world war will be fought, but the fourth will be fought with sticks and stones.
If a cluttered desk means a cluttered mind, then what does an empty desk mean?
There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second one is like there are only miracles all around.
The world is dangerous, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
When you sit next to a pretty girl, an hour seems like a minute, and when you sit on a hot frying pan, a minute seems like an hour.
If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.
Logic will take you from point A to point B. Imagination will take you anywhere.
The world is dangerous not because some people do evil, but because some people see it and do nothing.
We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid.
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.
I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
It is better to believe than not to believe, because with faith everything becomes possible.
I'm too crazy not to be a genius.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to evolution.
Theory is when everything is known, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why. We combine theory and practice: nothing works... and no one knows why!
The goal of the school should always be to educate a harmonious personality, and not a specialist.
If the theory of relativity is confirmed, then the Germans will say that I am a German, and the French will say that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is refuted, the French will declare me a German, and the Germans a Jew.
Only those who make absurd attempts will be able to achieve the impossible.
The only thing that prevents me from studying is the education I received.
Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.
Education is what remains after everything learned at school is forgotten.
The question that puzzles me is: am I crazy or is everything around me?
Anyone who wants to see the results of their labor immediately should become a shoemaker.
Through coincidences, God maintains anonymity.
Order is needed only by a fool; genius rules over chaos.
Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But it’s not like that at all...
To win, you first need to play.
Imagination is the most important thing, it is a reflection of what we attract into our lives.
Since mathematicians took up the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.
To break through a wall with your forehead, you need either a long run-up or many foreheads.
I never think about the future. It comes on its own soon enough.
A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.
The war has been won, but not the peace.
Learn from yesterday, live today, hope for tomorrow. The main thing is not to stop asking questions... Never lose your sacred curiosity.