Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a renowned physicist and mathematician who is best known for his theory of relativity, one of the pillars of modern physics. He was born in Ulm, Germany, and showed an early aptitude for mathematics and science.
Einstein’s theory of relativity, published in 1905 and 1915, revolutionized our understanding of space, time, and gravity. The theory of special relativity introduced the concept that the laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform motion, regardless of their relative velocity. It also established that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant and is the upper limit for the speed of anything with mass.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity, published in 1915, extended his earlier work to include gravity. It proposed that gravity is not a force transmitted through space but rather a curvature of spacetime caused by mass and energy. General relativity has been confirmed by numerous experiments and observations and remains the standard theory of gravity today.
Einstein’s work had a profound impact on various areas of physics, including cosmology, astrophysics, and particle physics. His equation E=mc², which relates energy (E) to mass (m) and the speed of light (c), is one of the most famous equations in the world and demonstrates the equivalence of mass and energy.
In addition to his scientific achievements, Einstein was also known for his social and political activism. He spoke out against nuclear weapons and war and advocated for civil rights and international cooperation. Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, which contributed to the development of quantum theory.
Albert Einstein’s contributions to science and his unique approach to understanding the universe have made him one of the most iconic and influential scientists in history. His name is synonymous with genius, and his work continues to inspire and shape our understanding of the natural world.
Albert Einstein Quotes
1. “What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.”
— Albert Einstein
2. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
— Albert Einstein
3. “Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.”
— Albert Einstein
4. “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
5. “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
— Albert Einstein
6. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
— Albert Einstein
7. “The only source of knowledge is experience.”
— Albert Einstein
8. “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
— Albert Einstein
9. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
— Albert Einstein
10. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
— Albert Einstein
11. “Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
— Albert Einstein
12. “Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
— Albert Einstein
13. “There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”
— Albert Einstein
14. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
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15. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
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16. “I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
— Albert Einstein
17. “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
— Albert Einstein
18. “Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
— Albert Einstein
19. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
— Albert Einstein
20. “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
— Albert Einstein
21. “All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.”
— Albert Einstein
22. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, require creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
— Albert Einstein
23. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein
24. “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
— Albert Einstein
25. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
— Albert Einstein
26. “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.”
— Albert Einstein
27. “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
— Albert Einstein
28. “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.”
— Albert Einstein
29. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
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30. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
— Albert Einstein
31. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex….. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
— Albert Einstein
32. “Education is not the learning of facts; it’s rather the training of the mind to think.”
— Albert Einstein
33. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
— Albert Einstein
34. “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
— Albert Einstein
35. “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
— Albert Einstein
36. “Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”
— Albert Einstein
37. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
— Albert Einstein
38. “Information is not knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein
39. “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
— Albert Einstein
40. “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
— Albert Einstein
41. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein
42. “Once you stop learning, you start dying.”
— Albert Einstein
43. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”
— Albert Einstein
44. “I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.”
— Albert Einstein
45. “The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.”
— Albert Einstein
46. “Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”
— Albert Einstein
47. “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
— Albert Einstein
48. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
— Albert Einstein
49. “Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.”
— Albert Einstein
50. “The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.”
— Albert Einstein
51. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
— Albert Einstein
52. “All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
— Albert Einstein
53. “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
— Albert Einstein
54. “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
— Albert Einstein
55. “A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it’s built for.”
— Albert Einstein
56. “Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”
— Albert Einstein
57. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
— Albert Einstein
58. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
— Albert Einstein
59. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
— Albert Einstein
60. “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
— Albert Einstein
61. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
— Albert Einstein
62. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I am not sure about the universe.”
— Albert Einstein
63. “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”
— Albert Einstein
64. “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
— Albert Einstein
65. “Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
— Albert Einstein
66. “A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.”
— Albert Einstein
67. “A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
— Albert Einstein
68. “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
— Albert Einstein
69. “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
— Albert Einstein
70. “In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”
— Albert Einstein
71. “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
— Albert Einstein
72. “Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”
— Albert Einstein
73. “The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
— Albert Einstein
74. “Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.”
— Albert Einstein
75. “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
— Albert Einstein
76. “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
— Albert Einstein
77. “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
— Albert Einstein
78. “I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.”
— Albert Einstein
79. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
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80. “Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.”
— Albert Einstein
81. “You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.”
— Albert Einstein
82. “Nothing happens until something moves.”
— Albert Einstein
83. “A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
— Albert Einstein
84. “I’d rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
— Albert Einstein
85. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
— Albert Einstein
86. “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
87. “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
— Albert Einstein
88. “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
89. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
— Albert Einstein
90. “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
— Albert Einstein
91. “Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
— Albert Einstein
92. “The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.”
— Albert Einstein
93. “The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion, and final emergence into light—only those who have experienced it can understand that.”
— Albert Einstein
94. “Imagination is the highest form of research.”
— Albert Einstein
95. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
— Albert Einstein
96. “The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
— Albert Einstein
97. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
— Albert Einstein
98. “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
99. “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
— Albert Einstein
100. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
— Albert Einstein
101. “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
— Albert Einstein
102. “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
103. “The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”
— Albert Einstein
104. “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
— Albert Einstein
105. “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
— Albert Einstein
106. “Time is an illusion.”
— Albert Einstein
107. “Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
— Albert Einstein
108. “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
109. “You never fail until you stop trying.”
— Albert Einstein
110. “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
— Albert Einstein
