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Albert Einstein
physicist and 1922 Nobel prize winner; b. 1879; d. 1955
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# · Not So Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
Before God we are all equally wise — and equally foolish.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
# · Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
# · Not So Good (13 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never think of the future — it will come soon enough.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else — unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
# · Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
# · Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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