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Popular and famous quotes by Albert Einstein
“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.”
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
“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.”
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
“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.”