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“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.” (Einstein Quotes)
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way,” Einstein once said. “But,” he hastened to add, “intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“A society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Besides, I believe that older people who have scarcely anything to lose ought to be willing to speak out in behalf of those who are young and are subject to much greater restraint.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Concern for making life better for ordinary humans must be the chief object of science.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Einstein rejected the emission theory in favor of postulating that the speed of a light beam was constant no matter how fast its source was moving.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Einstein was not used to self-righting political systems. Nor did he fully appreciate how resilient America’s democracy and its nurturing of individual liberty could be. So for a while his disdain deepened. But he was saved from serious despair by his wry detachment and his sense of humor. He was not destined to die a bitter man.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Einstein would not, as it turned out, ever win a Nobel for his work on relativity and gravitation, nor for anything other than the photoelectric effect.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Everyone must, from time to time, make a sacrifice on the altar of stupidity, to please the deity and mankind.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Falling in love is not the most stupid thing that people do,” Einstein scribbled on the letter, “but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“He has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn illusion.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“How did he get his ideas? “I’m enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty,” he said, “at least for me.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake,” he said. “Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, no Lister.” Freedom was a foundation for creativity.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“It is tasteless to prolong life artificially,” he told Dukas. “I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“It was a sunny day, and Einstein merrily played with the telescope’s dials and instruments. Elsa came along as well, and it was explained to her that the equipment was used to determine the scope and shape of the universe. She reportedly replied, “Well, my husband does that on the back of an old envelope.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Loyalty to a party, Einstein felt, meant surrendering some independence of thought. Such conformity confounded him. “How an intelligent man can subscribe to a party I find a complete mystery.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Physicists are not used to trimming or compromising their equations in order to get them accepted. Which is why they do not make good politicians.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, Einstein said.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“What do you think of Adolf Hitler?” Einstein replied, “He is living on the empty stomach of Germany. As soon as economic conditions improve, he will no longer be important.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
“When a person can take pleasure in marching in step to a piece of music it is enough to make me despise him. He has been given his big brain only by mistake.”
Walter Isaacson
Einstein
