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Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

Albert Einstein
Ideas, Shaving, Power Of Ideas

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for this delicate plant needs freedom no less than stimulation.

Albert Einstein
Teaching, Ignorance, Miracle

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

Albert Einstein
Time, War, Preparation

Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

Albert Einstein
Land, Brain, Acting
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.263, Princeton University Press

We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking

Albert Einstein
Thinking, Boundaries, Conditions

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

Albert Einstein
Life, Waiting, Mystery

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

Albert Einstein
Stars, Thinking, Feelings

The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.

Albert Einstein
Long, Giving, Tree

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

Albert Einstein
Water, Swim, Doe
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.8, Open Road Media

An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.

Albert Einstein
Evening, Lost, Agree

You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

Albert Einstein
Track, Different, Looks

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

Albert Einstein
Believe, Fate, World
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.325, Princeton University Press

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Albert Einstein
Love, Inspirational, Life

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

Albert Einstein
Science, Numbers, Facts

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

Albert Einstein
Education, Self, Mind
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.22, Broadway Books

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Albert Einstein
Love, Life, Sad
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.27, Open Road Media

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

Albert Einstein
Life, Hard Work, Science

If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

Albert Einstein
Thinking, Trying, Different
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.96, Princeton University Press

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

Albert Einstein
Strong, Book, Childhood

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Life, Music
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.409, Princeton University Press

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Goal, Made
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.399, Princeton University Press

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

Albert Einstein
Destiny, Vanity, Order
Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.232, Princeton University Press

I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.

Albert Einstein
Book, Simple, Mind

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

Albert Einstein
Genius, Talent

The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

Albert Einstein
Experts

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