Quotes About Einstein

As Albert Einstein said of himself in his later years, "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

My curiosity is interfering with my work!" Einstein lamented in 1915 while trying to finalize his Theory of General Relativity.

Albert Einstein: "To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority.

As the eternal child Albert Einstein said in 1929, "I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

That's what's "special" in special relativity: the "special" inertial frames are only a small subset of all possible reference frames.

I remember a quote from Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

I remember a quote from Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." I've always felt that made sense, but, like most of us, I also believe that I should be able to think my way out of my problem by going over and over how I thought myself into it.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

We call this atomization after Einstein's reflection that if you deconstruct any challenge into its basic components, or atoms, and focus on solving them one at a time, even the largest challenge shifts from being overwhelming to being intellectually and psychologically solvable.

When a doctoral student at Princeton asked, "What is there left in the world for original dissertation research?" Albert Einstein replied, "Find out about prayer. Somebody must find out about prayer.

A BOILERMAKER KILLS GERMS DEAD. Where'd you get that idea? BOOK. WHAT'S BOILERMAKER? Travis said, A shot of whiskey dropped into a glass of beer. Einstein considered that for a moment. KILL GERMS BUT BECOME ALCOHOLIC. Travis laughed and ruffled Einstein's coat. You're a regular comedian, fur face. MAYBE I SHOULD PLAY VEGAS.

Einstein watched with interest and did not seem even slightly woozy from his half-bottle of San Miguel. "Okay," Travis said, "I need

Albert Einstein put it differently: "Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed." Smart guy.

in his magisterial Modern Times, the secular West wrongly applied Einstein's theories of relativity to morality: Not only were time and motion relative, so were good and evil.

I should have been a son of Einstein.

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

On the other side, Church spokesmen could scarcely become enthusiastic about Planck's deism, which omitted all reference to established religions and had no more doctrinal content than Einstein's Judaism.

At my high school I felt like Einstein—now I realize why. Half the kids were stupid and the other half were stoned. At Yale I'm the stupid one. And the stupider I feel the less I go to class, which makes me fall more behind, which makes me feel stupider.