![]() "If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Quote from Banesh Hoffmann’s 1972 "Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel" "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." Simpson's book "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56" But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. 1918 letter to German mathematician Adolf Kneser "I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by disposition a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever." He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle." It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. ![]() "The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. Quote from a 1929 interview published in the Saturday Evening Post 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." "If… I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving." 1932 letter to Queen Elisabeth of Belgium "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." Quote from a 1929 interview published in The Saturday Evening Post Imagination is more important than knowledge. ![]() "I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. 1920 postcard to eight-year-old cousin Elisabeth Ney So it really is a pity that you didn't see me." But crooked legs and warts he does not have, and so is quite handsome - also there's no hair on his hands, as is so often the case with ugly men. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth. "Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. Quote from a 1921 interview in Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, a Dutch newspaper This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular assessment of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque." "It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few individuals for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. 1919 letter to physiology professor Heinrich Zangger "With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon." 1921 lecture before the Prussian Academy of Sciences "As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." 1896 school essay titled "My Future Plans," written at age 17 "A happy man is too satisfied with the present to think too much about the future." 1901 letter to Swiss linguist Jost Winteler "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." In honor of Einstein's birthday, here are 21 more quotes that give us a glimpse into his wit, humanity and deep curiosity. At the time, he didn’t have money to tip a bellboy, so he offered him this scrap of advice instead. In October 2017, a piece of paper on which Einstein wrote, "A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness," sold for $1.3 million at auction.Īccording to NPR’s Morning Edition, Einstein penned the sentence in 1922 after learning he had just won the Nobel Prize.
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