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Birthdate: March 14, 1879
Birthplace: Ulm, Wurttemburg, Germany
Date of Death: April 18, 1955
Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
Profile: Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. Best known for his theories of special and general relativity.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_einstein
Number of Quotes: 19
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
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