From Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German-born theoretical physicist, “Old Man’s Advice to Youth: ‘Never Lose a Holy Curiosity'” LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955):
The important thing is not to 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.
From Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German-born theoretical physicist:
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
From Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German born theoretical physicist:
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
From Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics):
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
From Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German-born theoretical physicist:
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
From Albert Einstein (1879–1955), theoretical physicist who published the special and general theories of relativity and contributed in other areas of physics. He won the Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. From “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck” The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929):
Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
From Albert Einstein (1879–1955), theoretical physicist who published the special and general theories of relativity and contributed in other areas of physics, Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
From Albert Einstein, discussing the letter he sent Roosevelt raising the possibility of atomic weapons, “Atom: Einstein, the Man Who Started It All,” Newsweek Magazine (10 March 1947):
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
From Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist, his response to atheist Alfred Kerr in the winter of 1927, who after deriding ideas of God and religion at a dinner party in the home of the publisher Samuel Fischer, had queried him “I hear that you are supposed to be deeply religious” as quoted in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971) by H. G. Kessler:
Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
From Albert Einstein (1879–1955), theoretical physicist, Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931):
I believe in intuition and inspiration. … At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. In fact I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
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