Albert Einstein was a renowned theoretical physicist who is widely considered one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. Born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879, Einstein showed an early aptitude for mathematics and science. However, his rebellious nature led him to drop out of high school at the age of 16.
Einstein went on to attend the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he earned a degree in physics in 1900. After graduation, he worked as a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, where he had ample time to pursue his own scientific research. During this time, Einstein developed some of his most groundbreaking theories, including his theory of special relativity.
In 1905, Einstein published a series of papers that revolutionized the field of physics. In addition to his theory of special relativity, he also proposed that light could behave both as a wave and as a particle, which he called the “photoelectric effect.” These papers earned Einstein a doctorate from the University of Zurich and established him as a leading physicist.
Einstein continued to make significant contributions to physics throughout his career. He developed the theory of general relativity, which explained the force of gravity as the curvature of space-time caused by massive objects. He also made important contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, a branch of physics that explains the behavior of particles on a very small scale.
In addition to his scientific work, Einstein was also a political activist and a humanitarian. He was a pacifist and spoke out against war and violence. He was also a vocal advocate for civil rights and worked to promote the education of disadvantaged children.
Einstein received numerous awards and honors throughout his lifetime, including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. He died on April 18, 1955, at the age of 76, in Princeton, New Jersey. Einstein’s work continues to influence modern physics and his name has become synonymous with genius and scientific innovation.
Albert Einstein Quotes About Intelligence
1. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
2. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
3. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
4. “The only source of knowledge is experience”
5. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school”
6. “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas”
7. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving”
8. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better”
9. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
10. “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.”
11. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
12. “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
13. “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.”
14. “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
15. “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
16. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
17. “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
18. “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
19. “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.”
20. “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
Albert Einstein Quotes About Success
21. It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
22. “I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.”
23. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
24. “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 … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.”
25. “My passion for social justice has often brought me into conflict with people, as has my aversion to any obligation and dependence I did not regard as absolutely necessary.”
26. “One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
27. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
28. “The greatest scientists are artists as well.”
29. “Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.”
30. “I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.”
31. “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
32. “I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings.”
33. “A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
34. “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.”
35. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
36.“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
37. “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
38. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
39. “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
40. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
Albert Einstein Quotes on Education
41. “The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”
42. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
43.“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
44. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
45. “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
46. “Time is an illusion.”
47. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
48. “Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work…”
49. “You never fail until you stop trying.”
50. “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
51. “Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
52. “The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.”
53. “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.”
54. “Imagination is the highest form of research.”
55. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
56. “The search for truth is more precious than its possession”
57. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
58. “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.”
59. “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
60. “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
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61. “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.”
62. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
63.“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
64. “The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
65. “Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
66. “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.”
67. “All generalizations are false, including this one.”
68. “I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
69. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
70. “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
71. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
72. “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
73. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
74. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.
75. “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
76. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
77. “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
78. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
79. “It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
80. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein Quotes about Love
81. “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
82. “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
83. “I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.”
84. “Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, observing, there we enter the realm of art and science.”
85. “Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.”
86. “All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree.”
87. “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit, and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
88. “Love is a better master than duty.”
89. “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
90.“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That’s why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
91. “I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
92. “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
93. “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
94. “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
95. “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
96. “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
97. “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
98. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
99. “Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”
100. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”