1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
Albert Einstein – [Pleasure]
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
Albert Einstein – [Action]
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein – [Humankind]
We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity… what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
Albert Einstein – [Life and Living]
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein – [Thoughts and Thinking]
We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein – [Intelligence and Intellectuals]
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
Albert Einstein – [Time and Time Management]
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein – [Methods]
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.
Albert Einstein – [Science and Scientists]
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein – [Simplicity]
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 – [Relativity]
When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
Albert Einstein – [Spirit and Spirituality]
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science
Albert Einstein – [Science and Scientists]
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein – [Truth]
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert Einstein – [Love]
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein – [Conflict]
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein – [Imagination]
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