Albert Einstein
Germany
14 Mar 1879 // 18 Apr 1955
Physician / Philosopher
14 Mar 1879 // 18 Apr 1955
Physician / Philosopher
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Imagination is more important than knowledge
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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