Albert Einstein
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Biography
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the known theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory.
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
"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."
"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
"Love is a better teacher than duty."
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind."
"Never memorize something that you can look up."
"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"
"The important thing is to not 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.—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'"LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64"
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
"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."
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
"You never fail until you stop trying."
"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."
"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."