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It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

Albert Einstein
Puzzles
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Motivation, Knowledge

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt is awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein
Beautiful, Art, Eye

In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.

Albert Einstein
Sports, Ambition, Intellectual
Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.

Albert Einstein
Should, Stills
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.93, Princeton University Press

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

Albert Einstein
Cotton, Making Money, Laurels
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck". The Saturday Evening Post, p. 17, October 26, 1929.

The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Atheism, World

A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.

Albert Einstein
Levels, Problem, Consciousness

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Albert Einstein
Art, Secret, Wonder

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Thinking, People
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.184, Princeton University Press

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

Albert Einstein
Peaceful, Devil, May
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.447, Princeton University Press

... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

Albert Einstein
Educational, Hands, Order
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.26, Open Road Media

What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Mean, Men
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.333, Princeton University Press

It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory.

Albert Einstein
Giving Up, Knowledge, Science
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.349, Broadway Books

There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.

Albert Einstein
Thinking, People, Mind

Life is like a bicycle; keep moving on to maintain balance.

Albert Einstein
Moving, Balance, Life Is Like

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.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom
Address to Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 27 Jan. 1921

The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.

Albert Einstein
War, Order, Law
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.283, Princeton University Press

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

Albert Einstein
War

If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.

Albert Einstein
Ideas, Giving, Stills

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Men, Finest
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.452, Princeton University Press

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Albert Einstein
Peace, War, Pieces

If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.

Albert Einstein
Judaism, Jew, Ifs

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

Albert Einstein
Sports, Baseball, Faster

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