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Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

Albert Einstein
Jesus, Men, Christianity
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck", The Saturday Evening Post, p. 17, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. October 26, 1929.

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

Albert Einstein
Newton

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

Albert Einstein
Common Sense, Age, Prejudice

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

Albert Einstein
Strong, Ego, Events

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

Albert Einstein
Men, Elderly
Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.374, Pickle Partners Publishing

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

Albert Einstein
Compassion, Circles, Tasks

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

Albert Einstein
Genius

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Albert Einstein
Love, Inspirational, Life
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.449, Princeton University Press

From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.

Albert Einstein
Zero, Science, Molecules

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, People, Criticism

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Albert Einstein
Thinking, Play, Weather
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

Albert Einstein
Men, Futility Of Life, Young

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Albert Einstein
Science, Diversity, Enquiry
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.178, Open Road Media

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

Albert Einstein
Children, Theory, Can Not

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

Albert Einstein
Education, Attitude, School

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

Albert Einstein
Wonder, Universe, Sense Of Wonder

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Spiritual, Attitude
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.247, Princeton University Press

Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.

Albert Einstein
Love Is, Men, Doe

The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

Albert Einstein
Numbers, Infinite, Natural

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

Albert Einstein
Nature, Eye, Doubt
Letter to Heinrich Zangger (10 March 1914), quoted in "The Curious History of Relativity" by Jean Eisenstaedt, (p. 126), 2006.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

Albert Einstein
Sympathy, Time, Hate
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.15, Open Road Media

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

Albert Einstein
Animal, Tree, Feelings

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein
Funny, Girl, Witty
"News Chronicle" (March 14, 1949), as cited by "The Columbia World of Quotations", 1996.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Albert Einstein
Greek, Educated, Educated Person

Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality.

Albert Einstein
Independent, Reality, Astrology
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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