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Albert Einstein
physicist and 1922 Nobel prize winner; b. 1879; d. 1955
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# · 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.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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