Member Albert Einstein
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
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I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
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One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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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.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.