33 Interesting And Funny Quotes Said To Be From Albert Einstein

1.  "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."  Albert Einstein

2.  "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you, mine are still greater."  Albert Einstein

3.  "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."  Albert Einstein

 4. "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." Albert Einstein

 5.  "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." Albert Einstein

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

 7."Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."  Albert Einstein

8.  "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein

  9.  "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."  Albert Einstein

    10.  "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."  Albert Einstein

 11.  "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!" Albert Einstein

    12.  "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" Albert Einstein

  13.  "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." Albert Einstein

14.  "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." Albert Einstein

    15.  "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." Albert Einstein

  16.  "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.

The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." Albert Einstein

 17.  "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. Albert Einstein

18.  He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." Albert Einstein

19. "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." Albert Einstein

20 . "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge." Albert Einstein

 21.  "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.

That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."  Albert Einstein

 22.  "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles.

Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." Albert Einstein

 23.  "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not.

This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year." Albert Einstein

 24.  "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Albert Einstein

25. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."  Albert Einstein

 26.  "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. Albert Einstein

27. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Albert Einstein

28. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. Albert Einstein

29.  It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." Albert Einstein

  30.  "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. Albert Einstein

31. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Albert Einstein

32. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." Albert Einstein

   33.  "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
 (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)   Albert Einstein

[Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet , so I decided to put it on my web page.

 I can't vouch for the authenticity of all of the quotes, or tell you where exactly where it came from, the person, who compiled the list, or anything like that.

Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.] (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement).

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