It’s not for nothing that they say that a talented person is talented in everything. Genius can also be called talent, since it is a unique feature of a person to be smart, reasonable and find a simple explanation for complex things. This applies perfectly to Albert Einstein, who is the most famous scientist in the history of science. He not only formulated the most complex theory of relativity, but was also able to speak very clearly and with a subtle touch of humor about simple things. About those things that surround each of us in everyday life. This makes his personality more interesting and his quotes more timeless.
Albert Einstein was synonymous with the word "Genius". That's right, with a capital letter.
Is he really that brilliant?
He preferred playing the violin to boring university lectures. Later, this musical instrument helped the scientist solve complex problems: as soon as he doubted something, he immediately began to play, and clear thoughts came to his head.
From the very beginning of his scientific career, Einstein was confident that he would receive the Nobel Prize. And he was absolutely right - in 1921 he became its owner. The genius is the author of about 300 works on physics and about 150 scientific works on philosophy.
In relationships with the opposite sex, he was distinguished by Don Juanism and inconstancy. A serious man in science was frivolous in his personal life.
Quotes by Albert Einstein about life and being
There are only two infinite things: the Universe and stupidity. Although I'm not sure about the Universe.
Theory is when everything is known, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why. We combine theory and practice: nothing works... and no one knows why!
There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second is as if there are only miracles all around.
If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.
Life is like driving a bicycle. To keep your balance you must move
Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.
Pure information? this is not knowledge. The real source of knowledge? this is an experience.
Observe nature carefully and you will understand everything much better.
Einstein Quotes
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
Compiled a selection of quotes from the scientist Albert Einstein .
They touch on many issues, but they couldn’t find anything about love Perhaps he was not very lucky with her...
Quotes are summarized by topic: life ethics, God and religion, about yourself, people, science, life, scientists, war, genius, the meaning of life, cognition, learning and education, physics, human manifestations, common sense and intelligence, the theory of relativity, imagination , truth and lies, fame and success, time, marriage and relatives, happiness, creativity, death.
About life ethics
A person's worth should be determined by what he gives, not by what he is able to achieve. Try to become not a successful person, but a valuable person.
It's time to replace the ideal of success with the ideal of service.
Every person is obliged to at least return to the world as much as he took from it.
A person's ethical behavior should be based on empathy, education, and community connections. No religious basis is required for this.
No goal is so high as to justify unworthy means to achieve it.
We must not lose faith in humanity because we ourselves are human.
There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second is as if there are only miracles all around.
To win, you first need to play.
You need to learn the rules of the game. And then you need to start playing better than everyone else.
To become a perfect member of the flock of sheep, you must first be a sheep.
You will never solve a problem if you think the same way as those who created it.
At the heart of every challenge lies opportunity.
There is no point in continuing to do the same thing and expect different results.
Only those who make absurd attempts will be able to achieve the impossible.
It is very important not to stop asking questions. Curiosity is not given to man by chance.
Observe nature carefully and you will understand everything much better.
About God and religion
God doesn't play dice.
The idea of a personified deity has never been close to me and seems rather naive.
The word "God" is to me only a manifestation and product of human weaknesses, and the Bible is a collection of venerable, but still primitive legends, which, nevertheless, are rather childish.
In their struggle for ethical good, religious teachers must have the courage to renounce the doctrine of God as a person, that is, to renounce that source of fear and hope which in the past has given such comprehensive power to the hands of the ministers of the church.
Through coincidences, God maintains anonymity.
The Lord God is sophisticated, but not malicious.
The Lord God calculates differentials empirically.
Anyone who seriously engages in science comes to the realization that in the laws of nature there is manifested a Spirit that is much higher than the human - a Spirit in the face of which we, with our limited strength, must feel our own weakness. In this sense, scientific research leads to a special kind of religious feeling, which indeed differs in many ways from a more naive religiosity.
Even though the spheres of religion and science are themselves clearly demarcated, there is a strong relationship and interdependence between them. The situation can be described figuratively as follows: science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind.
About Me
In my youth I discovered that my big toe would eventually make a hole in my sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientific thinker, more than Gauss.
Thanks to the fact that today the theory of relativity satisfies the tastes of readers, in Germany they call me a German scientist, and in England I am a Swiss Jew. If it comes to my denigration, then the characteristics will change places, and for Germany I will become a Swiss Jew, and for England - a German scientist.
Reports about my religiosity are completely false. A lie that is persistently repeated! I don't believe in a personalized God.
I am a deeply religious atheist. You could say that this is a kind of new religion.
The ideals that illuminated my path and gave me courage and courage were goodness, beauty and truth.
I am well aware that I have no special talent - curiosity, obsession and stubborn endurance, combined with self-criticism, led me to my ideas.
I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
I live in that solitude which is so painful in youth, but delightful in maturity.
To punish me for my aversion to authority, fate made me the authority.
About people
The question that puzzles me is: am I crazy or is everything around me?
Man is a part of the whole, which we call the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He feels himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest of the world, which is a kind of optical illusion.
The real problem is the inner state of the soul and thinking of humanity. This is not a physical problem, but an ethical problem. What frightens us is not the explosive power of the atomic bomb, but the power of the bitterness of the human heart, the explosive power for bitterness.
A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.
Human freedom in the modern world is similar to the freedom of a person solving a crossword puzzle: theoretically, he can write in any word, but in reality he only has to write in one for the crossword puzzle to be solved.
If people are good only because they fear punishment and desire reward, then we are truly pathetic creatures.
Before God, we are all equally wise - or equally foolish.
People cause me seasickness, not the sea. But I'm afraid science has not yet found a cure for this disease.
By the way, quotes about people
About science
Nobody itches unless they itch.
The only thing my long life has taught me is that all our science, in the face of reality, looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet it is the most valuable thing we have.
Our main problem seems to be that we are improving the methods but getting confused about the goals.
The process of scientific discovery is, in essence, a continuous flight from miracles.
Concern for man and his fate should always be at the forefront of any technological development. Never forget this among your equations and diagrams.
Mathematics is the only perfect method for fooling yourself.
The laws of mathematics that have any relation to the real world are unreliable; and reliable mathematical laws have no relation to the real world.
No amount of experimentation can prove a theory; but one experiment is enough to refute it.
By the way, quotes about science
About life
Life is like driving a bicycle. To maintain balance, you must move.
What can a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?
The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits.
Perfect means for unclear ends are a characteristic feature of our time.
What a sad era when it is easier to break an atom than to abandon prejudices.
The world is dangerous not because some people do evil, but because some people see it and do nothing.
The moral progress of society depends solely on the independence of man.
Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
The eternally unknowable in the world is that which seems understandable to us.
Theory is when everything is known, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why. We combine theory and practice: nothing works... and no one knows why!
By the way, quotes about life
About scientists
Everyone knows that this is impossible. But then comes an ignorant person who doesn’t know this - he makes a discovery.
I cannot imagine a true scientist who does not have deep faith. This can be expressed this way: you cannot believe in godless science.
The main thing in the life of a person of my type is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or experiences.
A scientist is like a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake in others.
Anyone who wants to see the results of their labor immediately should become a shoemaker.
Since we scientists are destined for the tragic fate of further increasing the monstrous effectiveness of the means of destruction, it is our most solemn and noble duty to prevent with all our might the use of these weapons for the cruel purposes for which they were invented.
About war
The war has been won, but not the peace. (in 1945)
I'm not just a pacifist, I'm a militant pacifist. I am ready to fight for peace. Nothing will end in war if the people themselves refuse to go to war.
You cannot prevent war by preparing for it.
Anyone who happily marches to the music in formation has already earned my contempt. He was endowed with a brain by mistake; a spinal cord would have been enough for him. This disgrace to civilization must end. Heroism on command, senseless cruelty and disgusting senselessness called patriotism - how much I hate all this, how low and vile war is.
I don't know what weapons the Third World War will be fought with, but the Fourth will use stones!
By the way, quotes about war
About genius
We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid.
I'm too crazy not to be a genius.
Only a fool needs order - genius rules over chaos.
When a normal person looks for a needle in a haystack and sooner or later finds it, he calms down. A genius, unlike a normal person, will try to find all possible needles.
— Do you have a notebook to write down your brilliant thoughts? — Brilliant thoughts come to mind so rarely that they are not difficult to remember.
Why do my best ideas come to me while I'm in the shower?
About the meaning of life
From the point of view of everyday life, one thing is obvious: we live for other people - and most of all for those on whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
The true value of a person is primarily determined by the extent and meaning in which he was able to renounce his “I”.
The life of an individual has meaning only to the extent that it helps to make the lives of other people more beautiful and noble. Life is sacred; it is, so to speak, the supreme value to which all other values are subordinated.
Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.
By the way, quotes about the meaning of life
About knowledge
The eternal mystery of the world is its knowability. ...The very fact of this knowability seems like a miracle.
The most incomprehensible thing about this world is that it is comprehensible.
How much we know and how little we understand.
Understanding the atom is child's play compared to the riddles of children's play.
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old child, you don't understand it yourself.
Everything should be simplified as much as possible, but no more.
Do you really think that the moon only exists when you look at it?
About training and education
The only thing stopping me from studying is the education I received.
Education is what remains after everything learned at school is forgotten.
I do believe that the over-emphasis on a purely intellectual stance in our education, often focused entirely on practice and facts, has directly led to a devaluation of ethical values.
The only smart way to teach people is to lead by example.
I don’t teach my students anything, I just create the conditions in which they themselves will learn.
One day you stop learning and you start dying.
If you want your children to be smart, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be even smarter, read them more fairy tales.
About physics
The highest task of a physicist is to search for such highly universal laws from which, using pure deduction, one can obtain a picture of the world. There is no logical path leading to such laws. They can only be obtained through intuition, based on a phenomenon similar to intellectual love for the objects of experience.
Highest musicality in the field of thought. (about the model of the atom proposed by Niels Bohr)
Quantum mechanics is truly impressive. But my inner voice tells me that this is not ideal yet. This theory says a lot, but still does not bring us closer to unraveling the secret of the Almighty.
About human manifestations
A person always likes to do what he has talent for.
A person who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new.
Only a few are able to calmly express opinions that diverge from the prejudices of the environment, while most people are generally incapable of coming to such opinions.
Power always attracts people of low moral character.
About common sense and intelligence
Common sense is the sum of the prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen.
If you do not sin against reason, you cannot come to anything at all.
The intellect should not be deified. He has powerful muscles, but no face.
About the theory of relativity
When a blind bug crawls along the plane of the ball, it does not notice that the path it takes is curved. I managed to notice this.
Since mathematicians took up the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.
Forgive me, Newton.
About imagination
Imagination is everything. This is a preview of upcoming events in life.
Logic can take you from point A to point B, and imagination can take you anywhere.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to evolution.
About truth and lies
Finding the truth is more important than having the truth.
It is not easy to say what the truth is, but lies are often easy to recognize.
All people lie, but it’s not scary, no one listens to each other.
About fame and success
The greater my fame, the more stupid I become; and this is undoubtedly the general rule.
The world is a madhouse. Fame means everything.
If A is success in life, then A=x+y+z, where x is work, y is play, and z is keep your mouth shut.
About the time
The only reason for time to exist is to prevent everything from happening at once.
I never think about the future. It comes on its own soon enough.
When you sit next to a pretty girl, an hour seems like a minute, and when you sit on a hot frying pan, a minute seems like an hour.
By the way, quotes about time
About marriage and relatives
Marriage is an unsuccessful attempt to turn a random episode into something lasting.
Regarding relatives, a lot can be said... and it must be said, because it cannot be printed.
By the way, quotes about wedding
Oh happiness
I was born, and that's all you need to be happy!
If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.
By the way, quotes about happiness
About creativity
The secret of creativity is the ability to hide the sources of your inspiration.
If at first the idea does not seem absurd, it is hopeless.
By the way, quotes about creativity
About death
I have learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later.
I want to be cremated so people don't come to worship my bones.
About miscellaneous
The old man <Freud> had a merciless gaze; There was no illusion in the world that could lull him to sleep - except faith in his own ideas.
Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But not at all like that.
Nationalism is a childhood disease. This is the measles of humanity.
To break through a wall with your forehead, you need either a long run-up or many foreheads.
International laws exist only in collections of international laws.
I believe that a vegetarian diet, if only because of its purely physical effect on the human temperament, must have an extremely beneficial effect on the fate of mankind.
Never memorize anything you can find in a book.
If a cluttered desk means a cluttered mind, then what does an empty desk mean?
As you can see, Einstein’s quotes are by no means only about science , although the specificity of the scientist’s view of the world and man is certainly felt. Probably the main secret of their continued popularity even among those who are not friends with physics is their imagery, liveliness, and originality.
Quotes about Einstein
- M. Maric: My husband is a genius! He knows how to do absolutely everything except money.
- M. Dietrich: For the simpletons, Einstein explained his theory of relativity as follows: “This is when Zurich stops at this train.”
- Z. Freud: You have the opportunity to work in the field of mathematical physics, and not in psychology, where everyone thinks they have something to say. (by the way, quotes from Sigmund Freud)
- M. Born: Einstein's ideas gave physical science an impulse that freed it from outdated philosophical doctrines and turned it into one of the decisive forces of the modern world of people.
- S. Leacock: It’s all Einstein’s fault. In 1905 he declared that there is no absolute peace, and since then there really has been none.
- H. Weizmann: Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and soon I was absolutely sure that he understood it.
- B. Shaw: Ptolemy created a universe that lasted 1400 years. Newton created a universe that lasted 300 years. Einstein created another universe, and I can't tell you how long it will last. (by the way, quotes from Bernard Shaw)
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- Tolstoy quotes
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Aphorisms about man
A person's worth should be determined by what he gives, not by what he is able to achieve. Try to become not a successful person, but a valuable person.
A man who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new.
To become a perfect member of the flock of sheep, you must first be a sheep.
A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.
You need to learn the rules of the game. And then you need to start playing better than everyone else
A person who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new.
All people lie, but it’s not scary, no one listens to each other.
We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid.
Do you know? Albert Einstein always said “I” and did not allow anyone to say “we”. The meaning of this pronoun simply did not reach the scientist. His close friend only once saw the imperturbable Einstein in rage when his wife uttered the forbidden “we.”
Einstein's genius
The above quotes once again prove that Einstein knew a lot, but besides this, he thought about a lot and could tell a lot. If you disagree with something, you can speak out in our Telegram chat.
Now it seems that his quotes are in the style of “Captain Obvious,” but the wheel and the water pipe now also seem like something ordinary, but once upon a time someone came up with them literally out of nothing, changing our lives and making them the way we love them .
Physicists have figured out how to save Schrödinger's cat
Something like this with quotes from great people . Let some of this be a truism, but only they were able to so subtly put it into words and put it on paper. We can only learn from the experience of previous generations and try to leave something for the future based on this. Don't be like Vasya! Be like Einstein!
About faith and God
Almighty God cannot judge humanity.
I do not believe in a theological god who rewards good and punishes evil.
God is cunning, but not malicious.
God doesn't play dice.
Observing the harmony of the cosmos, I, with my limited human mind, am able to admit that there are still people who say that there is no God. But what really angers me is that they back up such a statement with a quote from me.
Our math difficulties don't bother God. He integrates empirically.
Did God have a choice when He created the Universe?
Before God, we are all equally smart, or rather, equally stupid.
Through coincidences, God maintains anonymity.
A person's ethical behavior should be based on empathy, education, and community connections. No religious basis is required for this.
Religion, art and science are branches of the same tree.
Science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind.
Through coincidences, God maintains anonymity.
