Top 25 Quotes by Albert Einstein of 1952 - Page 35

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

Albert Einstein

Thinking, Space, Investing

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

Genius, Curious

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Albert Einstein

Funny, Life, Cute

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

Albert Einstein

Memories, Book, Commit

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

Albert Einstein

Corruption, Praise

Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

Albert Einstein

Germany, Want, Firsts

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.163, Princeton University Press

It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism.

Albert Einstein

People, Peaceful

What use are socks? They only produce holes.

Albert Einstein

Use, Holes, Produce

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

God, Believe, Science

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

Albert Einstein

Powerful, Men, Conviction

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

Albert Einstein

Physics, Ends, Quantum

God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

Albert Einstein

Belief, Crap, Universe

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Albert Einstein

Love, Life, Ambition

Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.46, Princeton University Press

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

Albert Einstein

Men, Thinking, Bird

Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.

Albert Einstein

Challenges, Details, Topics

When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.

Albert Einstein

Men, Thinking, Covered Up

I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

Albert Einstein

Believe, Names, Patriotism

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Spiritual, Reading

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

Albert Einstein

Intellectual, Groups, Spirit

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

Albert Einstein

War, Two, Wife

The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

Albert Einstein

Time, Anger, Men