Quotes and Aphorisms 18.12.2018

We all know the name of the brilliant scientist Albert Einstein, who gave the world many great discoveries. But besides this, he was a truly great man with unconventional thinking and a great sense of humor. An eccentric professor, with disheveled hair and a mischievous smile, who became the prototype of the absent-minded genius in films and animation, an extraordinary and unconventional personality, whose thoughts went far beyond the boundaries of existing science, he had his own view on many things.

Let us, dear readers, remember the brilliant and apt quotes and the aphorisms of Albert Einstein, and once again we will admire one of the greatest minds of humanity.

The most incomprehensible thing in this world is that it is comprehensible...

Einstein's life was full of paradoxes and contradictions. A serious scientist, with his loved ones he was good-natured, open and kind person. Einstein's quotes about life are as simple and brilliant as he himself.

“Strive not for success, but for your life to have meaning.”

“There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second one is like there are only miracles all around.”

"If you want to lead happy life, you must be attached to the goal, not to people or things."

“It is better to believe than not to believe, because with faith everything becomes possible.”

“Only the Universe and human stupidity are infinite. Although I have doubts about the first one.”

“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.”

“Only those who make absurd attempts will be able to achieve the impossible.”

“To win, first of all you need to play.”

“If you live as if nothing in this world is a miracle, then you will be able to do whatever you want and you will have no obstacles. If you live as if everything is a miracle, then you will be able to enjoy even the smallest manifestations of beauty in this world. If you live both ways at the same time, your life will be happy and productive.”

“A man who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new.”

“To break through a wall with your forehead, you need either a long run-up or many foreheads.”

“I never think about the future. It comes on its own soon enough.”

“A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.”

"Human freedom in modern world is like 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.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about this world is that it is comprehensible.”

“It is blasphemous to boast about achievements and successes when children are hungry, cold and in poverty, surviving on the margins of society.”

“Strive not for success and local victories, but for the meaningful component of life.”

“The life of an individual has meaning only to the extent that it helps to make the lives of others more beautiful and noble.”

The war has been won, but not the peace

The great scientist hated war and foresaw the horrors of Nazism long before Hitler came to power. Albert Einstein's quotes and aphorisms about war and peace contain all the bitterness and pain that he experienced when remembering this.

“Heroism on command, senseless cruelty and disgusting senselessness called patriotism - how much I hate all this, how low and vile war is. I am convinced that murder under the pretext of war does not cease to be murder.”

“Those who joyfully march in formation to the music [...] received the brain by mistake: for them, the spinal cord would have been enough. I so hate heroism on command, senseless cruelty and all the disgusting nonsense of what is united under the word “patriotism,” just as I despise vile war, that I would rather allow myself to be torn to pieces than be part of such actions.”

“The world cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved through understanding.”

“I don’t know what weapon will be used to fight the third World War, but the fourth - with sticks and stones."

“The world is dangerous not because some people do evil, but because some people see it and do nothing.”

“I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.”

"The war has been won, but not the peace."

“Nationalism is a childhood disease. This is the measles of humanity."

“International laws exist only in collections of international laws.”

“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.”

“The world we have created today, as a result of our thinking, still has problems that cannot be solved if we think in the same way as when they were created.”

“Every person is obliged to at least return to the world as much as he took from it.”

“The pioneers of a world without war are the young men who refuse to serve in the military.”

Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But it’s not like that at all...

The theory of relativity is one of greatest discoveries that he gave to the world. It is reflected in Einstein’s quotes and aphorisms about time, and the fact that everything is relative not only in science, but also in real life.

“Do you really think that the moon only exists when you look at it?”

“All people lie, but it’s not scary, no one listens to each other.”

“A person feels himself, his thoughts and feelings, separated from the whole world - and this is his optical illusion. This illusion has become a prison for us, limiting us to the world own desires. Our task is to free ourselves from this prison, expanding the sphere of our participation to every living being, to the whole world. No one can complete this task completely, but trying to achieve this goal is part of liberation."

“Since mathematicians took up the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.”

“The greater my fame, the more stupid I become; and this is undoubtedly the general rule.”

"Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But it’s not like that at all...”

“If the theory of relativity is confirmed, the Germans will say that I am a German, and the French will say that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is refuted, the French will declare me a German, and the Germans a Jew.”

“If you cannot explain it simply, then you yourself do not fully understand it.”

Einstein once wrote to Charlie Chaplin:
“Your film “Gold Rush” is understood all over the world, and you will certainly become a great person.”
To which Chaplin replied:
“I admire you even more. Nobody in the world understands your theory of relativity, but you still became a great man.”

“The eternally unknowable in the world is that which seems understandable to us.”

"The laws of mathematics having any relation to real world, unreliable; and reliable mathematical laws have no relation to the real world.”

“For the simpletons, Einstein explained his theory of relativity this way: “This is when Zurich stops at this train.”

“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.”

“Whoever wants to see the results of his labor immediately should become a shoemaker.”

“If I knew that I was going to die in three hours, it wouldn’t make much of an impression on me. I would think about how best to use those three hours.”

“The only reason for time to exist is to prevent everything from happening at once.”

“There is no space and time, but there is their unity.”

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

The genius had a special relationship with religion. Their whole essence is in Albert Einstein’s quotes and aphorisms about God.

“God uses coincidences to maintain anonymity.”

“I believe in God... who reveals himself in the natural harmony of all things, and not in the Lord, who deals with the fate and actions of specific people.”

“Before God, we are all equally wise - or equally foolish.”

“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. She will have to overcome the idea of ​​God as a person, and also avoid dogma and theology. Embracing both nature and spirit, it will be based on a religious feeling arising from the experience of the meaningful unity of all things - both natural and spiritual. Buddhism fits this description. If there is a religion that can meet modern scientific needs, it is Buddhism.”

“The Lord God does not play dice with the Universe.”

“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.”

“In vain, in the face of the catastrophes of the 20th century, many complain: “How did God allow it?”... Yes. He allowed: He allowed our freedom, but did not leave us in the darkness of ignorance. The path to knowledge of good and evil is indicated. And the man himself had to pay for choosing the wrong paths.”

“Our mathematical difficulties do not bother God. He integrates experientially.”

“I am a deeply religious atheist. You could say it’s a kind of new religion.”

“I am not trying to imagine God as a person; The amazing structure of the universe is enough for me, as far as our imperfect senses can perceive it.”

“Science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind.”

“Almighty God cannot judge mankind.”

“God is cunning, but not malicious.”

“Reports about my religiosity are pure lies. A lie that is persistently repeated! I don't believe in a personal God. I expressed my attitude towards God clearly and never renounced my words. If any of my statements may seem religious to someone, then this is probably my boundless admiration for the structure of the world that science shows us.”

“I cannot believe in God as a being who directly influences the actions of individual people or administers judgment over his creatures. I am unable to believe in it, although mechanical causation modern science to a certain extent is questioned. My faith consists in humble worship of a spirit incomparably superior to us and revealed to us in the little that we are able to know with our weak, mortal mind. Morality is very important, but not for God, but for us.”

“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."

Am I crazy or are the people around me?

It is a well-known fact that the brilliant scientist was by no means a brilliant student at school. Moreover, the teachers considered Albert almost mentally retarded and directly told the boy’s parents about this. As Albert Einstein aptly expressed about the paradox of genius and ignorance in his quotes and aphorisms about education and science.

“The mind, once expanded, will never return to its former limits.”

“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!”

“The goal of the school should always be to educate a harmonious personality, not a specialist.”

“The only thing stopping me from studying is the education I received.”

“Education is what remains after everything learned at school is forgotten.”

“Learn from yesterday, live today, hope for tomorrow. The main thing is not to stop asking questions. Never lose your sacred curiosity."

“Any fool can know. The trick is to understand."

“Never memorize what you can find in a book.”

“If you can’t explain something to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.”

“Wisdom is not the result of education, but the result of a lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

“Science is not and will never be a finished book. Every important success brings new questions. Every development reveals, over time, new and deeper difficulties.”

“Mathematics is the only perfect method for fooling yourself.”

"Information in pure form– this is not knowledge. The real source of knowledge is experience.”

“The process of scientific discovery is, in essence, a continuous flight from wonder.”

“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.”

“Everyone knows that this is impossible. But then an ignoramus comes along, who doesn’t know this, and he makes the discovery.”

"I'm too crazy not to be a genius."

“The question that puzzles me is: am I crazy or is everything around me?”

The main thing is not to stop asking questions...

The scientist’s phenomenality also lay in the fact that he was able to look at a problem from an unexpected angle and always chose a non-standard solution, relying on intuition. They say the most complex tasks he decided by playing the violin. Quotes and aphorisms about order and chaos, imagination and logic contain all the genius of Albert Einstein.

“If a cluttered desk means a cluttered mind, then what does an empty desk mean?”

“Only a fool needs order; genius rules over chaos.”

“In the midst of chaos, find simplicity. Find harmony in the midst of discord. Find opportunity in difficulty.”

“Logic will take you from point A to point B. Imagination will take you anywhere.”

“Common sense is the sum of prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to evolution.”

“Imagination has no boundaries, knowledge is always within limits. Embrace the whole world with fantasy, dreams, imagining yourself as the ruler of the universal universe.”

“Imagination is the most important thing, it is a reflection of what we attract into our lives.”

“Strength of spirit cannot replace sensitivity of fingers.”

“A successful person is always a stunning artist of his imagination.”

“The most beautiful thing in the world is mystery. She is the source of art and science."

“Your imagination is your ability today to see what will happen in your life tomorrow.”

“Fantasy is our only weapon in the fight against reality.”

“On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I need time for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work is not going well, I lie down in the middle of the workday and look at the ceiling to listen and consider what is happening in my imagination."

“The world is a madhouse. Fame means everything."

“You will never solve a problem if you think like those who created it.”

“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid.”

“Intelligence has nothing to do with the true process of discovery. There is a leap of consciousness - call it intuition or something else - and it is unknown where and why the decision comes to you.”

“He who follows the crowd will only get as far as the crowd, no further. Anyone who walks alone can reach places where no one has ever been.”

“It makes no sense to continue doing the same thing and expect different results.”

“To be a perfect member of the flock of sheep, you must first be a sheep.”

“Only a few are able to express opinions that diverge from prejudice environment, the majority of people are generally incapable of coming to such opinions.”

“The opportunity lies somewhere in the middle of the problem you have.”

“The only truly valuable quality is intuition. On the path to discovery, the role of intelligence is insignificant.”

“If an idea doesn’t seem absurd at first, it’s hopeless.”

An absent-minded genius with a wonderful sense of humor, an unconventional approach to any problem, a great scientist and one of the greatest minds of mankind, Albert Einstein always believed in himself and did not retreat one step from his chosen path. An excellent quality that will be useful to any of us in life, dear readers!

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A smile is the mirror of the soul... About smiling in quotes and aphorisms

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) – theoretical physicist, creator of the theory of relativity and one of the creators of quantum theory and statistical physics, laureate Nobel Prize (1921).

The distinction between past, future and present is just an illusion.

I don't have any special talents. I'm just passionately curious.

I thought and thought for months and years. Ninety-nine times my conclusions were wrong. But for the hundredth time I was right.

Learn from yesterday, live today, hope for tomorrow. The key is to never stop asking questions... Never lose your sacred curiosity.

If you want your children to be smart, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be even smarter, read them even more fairy tales.

A smart person solves problems. a wise man avoids them.

Wisdom is not the result of education, but the result of a lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Education is what is left when you have forgotten everything you learned in school.

Love - best teacher than a duty.

Little knowledge is dangerous. Big too.

Any fool can know. The trick is to understand.

Most people argue that a great scientist is first and foremost an intellect. They are mistaken: it is primarily character.

The vast majority of people know that this is impossible, and then there is one person who does not know - and so he makes the discovery.

Any intelligent fool is capable of inflating, complicating and aggravating. To do the opposite requires at least a little genius—and a lot of courage.

If A – life success, then A = X + Y + Z, where: X is work, Y is excitement, Z is a tightly closed mouth.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To maintain balance, you need to keep moving.

I am enough of an artist to be able to draw freely in my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination embraces the entire Universe, pushing progress, giving rise to evolution.

The gift of fantasy means more to me than the ability to absorb positive knowledge.

Logic will take you from A to B. Fantasy will take you anywhere.

The only truly valuable quality is intuition. On the path to discovery, the role of intelligence is insignificant.

Only daring guesses, and not the accumulation of facts, can lead us to success.

At the core of every challenge lies opportunity.

God always chooses the easiest path.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulate creative thinking.

He has never made mistakes who has never tried to do something new.

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Humans are incredibly slow, imprecise, and intelligent. Together they have a power that is unimaginable.

Morality is of the greatest importance - not for God, but for ourselves.

A person must learn to understand the motives of his own kind, their illusions and their suffering.

Peace cannot be maintained by force. Peace can only be achieved through understanding.

Never act against your conscience, even if state interests require it.

Attempts to combine wisdom and power were rarely successful - and even then only for a short time.

A table, an armchair, a plate of fruit and a violin - what else does a person need to be happy?

“There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second one is like there are only miracles all around.”

“There are only two infinite things: the Universe and stupidity. Although I’m not entirely sure about the Universe.”

“For the simpletons, Einstein explained his theory of relativity as follows: “This is when Zurich stops at this train.”

“The only thing that can guide us to noble thoughts and actions is the example of great and morally pure individuals.”

"In my youth I discovered that thumb feet sooner or later makes a hole in the sock. So I stopped wearing socks."

“A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.”

“No amount of experimentation can prove a theory; but one experiment is enough to refute it.”

“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.”

“It is impossible to solve a problem at the same level at which it arose. We need to rise above this problem by rising to the next level.”

“Man is a part of the whole, which we call the Universe, a part limited in time and space.”

“Every person is obliged to at least return to the world as much as he took from it.”

“Nothing of value can be born from ambition or a sense of duty. Values ​​arise through love and devotion to people and the objective realities of this world.”

“The world cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved through understanding.”

“The real progress of mankind depends not so much on the inventive mind as on consciousness.”

“There is only one path to greatness, and that path is through suffering.”

“Morality is the basis of all human values.”

“It is time to replace the ideal of success with the ideal of service.”

“A person can find meaning in life only by devoting himself to society.”

“The goal of the school should always be to educate a harmonious personality, and not a specialist.”

“Ethical behavior should be based on sympathy for people, education and social connections; there is no need for a religious basis at all.”

“Only the life that is lived for the sake of other people is worthy.”

“The true value of a person is determined by the extent to which he has freed himself from selfishness and by what means he has achieved this.”

“Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.”

“I don’t know with what weapons they will fight in the 3rd World War, but in the 4th World War they will fight with sticks and stones.”

“Marriage is an attempt to create something lasting and lasting out of a random episode.”

“The Lord God calculates differentials empirically.”

“The process of scientific discovery is, in essence, a continuous flight from miracles.”

"The only thing my long life: that all our science in the face of reality looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet it is the most valuable thing we have.”

“If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.”

“If the theory of relativity is confirmed, the Germans will say that I am a German, and the French will say that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is refuted, the French will declare me a German, and the Germans a Jew.”

“Common sense is the sum of prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen.”

“Nationalism is a childhood disease. This is the measles of humanity."

“The war has been won, but not the peace.”

“It’s very simple, my dears: because politics is much more complicated than physics!”

“International laws exist only in collections of international laws.”

“People cause me seasickness, not the sea. But I’m afraid science has not yet found a cure for this disease.”

“It is not easy to say what the truth is, but lies are often easy to recognize.”

“Whoever wants to see the results of his labor immediately should become a shoemaker.”

“You will never solve a problem if you think like those who created it.”

“A scientist is like a mimosa when he notices his own mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers someone else’s mistake.”

“What can a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?”

“I have learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later.”

“My husband is a genius! He knows how to do absolutely everything except money. (A. Einstein’s wife about him)"

“I want to be cremated so people don’t come to worship my bones.”

“I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.”

“The greater my fame, the more stupid I become; and this is undoubtedly the general rule.”

“Our mathematical difficulties do not bother God. He integrates empirically."

“You shouldn’t deify the intellect. He has powerful muscles, but no face."

“Mathematics is the most perfect way to fool yourself.”

“Since mathematicians took up the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.”

“It has often happened in physics that significant success has been achieved by drawing consistent analogies between seemingly unrelated phenomena.”

“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.”

“It is amazingly possible to master a subject mathematically without understanding the essence of the matter.”

“All ideas in science were born in dramatic conflict between reality and our attempts to understand it."

“The Lord God does not play dice.”

“The Lord God is subtle, but not malicious.”

“Everyone knows that this is impossible. But then an ignoramus comes along, who doesn’t know this, and he makes the discovery.”

“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.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”

“If you don’t sin against reason, you can’t come to anything at all.”

“Everything should be stated as simply as possible, but not simpler.”

“Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

Not everyone is able to understand the theory of relativity. Albert Einstein admitted that he himself did not fully comprehend it. This greatest physicist and mathematician of our time is of interest to most people, first of all, as an extraordinary personality and a person capable of thinking in non-standard categories.

Perhaps he deserves no less recognition as a philosopher than as a scientist. His discussions about life, freedom, the role of intelligence, wealth and the importance of a spiritual attitude towards the world around us will encourage someone to change their own views on many things that seem very important today.

The dates of some of the scientist’s aphorisms and quotes are particularly interesting. They should be correlated with events taking place in the world. These thoughts have not lost their relevance today, many decades later.

It is also likely that these 22 quotes will help you learn more about Albert Einstein and understand him to some extent.

1. About life

“People are like bicycles. They can maintain balance only by moving on" (from a letter on February 5, 1930)

2. About imagination

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress and giving rise to evolution" (1931).

3. About thinking

“Any person who reads too much and uses his own brain too little acquires the habit of thinking lazily.”

4. About the price

5. About the world

6. About happiness

“If you want to live happily, connect your life with a goal, not with people or objects.”

7. About fate

“The highest destiny of man is to serve, not to rule” (1939)

8. About work ethics

“The state of mind that allows a person to do such work... is akin to the mentality of a religious adept or a lover. The need for daily effort comes not from premeditation or programme, but directly from the heart" (1918)

9. About politics

"I am born a Jew, a Swiss by nationality, and a human being in appearance. I am only a man, without any special attachment to a state or national organization."

10. About ambitions

“Nothing of real value comes from ambition or a sense of duty. It is rather connected with love and devotion towards people and objective facts” (July 30, 1947).

11. About knowledge

"Experience is the only source of knowledge."

12. About stupidity

“Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity. I'm not entirely sure about the Universe..."

13. About common sense

“Common sense is nothing more than a set of prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen.”

14. About social conditioning

“Few people are capable of expressing an impartial opinion that differs from the prejudices that dominate their social environment. Most are not even able to clearly formulate such an opinion.”

15. About confronting the crowd

“Great people always experience opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind cannot understand a man who refuses to submit to the blindness of common prejudices and expresses his opinions with courage and honesty.” (from a letter March 19, 1940)

16. About intelligence

“We should not deify the intellect. He certainly has strength, but he has no personality.”

17. About wealth

“I am absolutely convinced that no amount of wealth in the world can help humanity, even if it were in the hands of the most devoted servant for the common good. An example of the great and pure people- the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and actions. Money only leads to selfishness... Can you imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi with a bag of money?”

18. About talent

19. About mastery

“Only one who puts all his strength and soul into his work can be a true master. For this reason, everyone should become a master” (from a letter, July 1947).

20. About freedom

“Everything truly outstanding and inspiring is created only by the person who can work freely” (1938).

21. About loneliness

“I am truly a “lonely wanderer,” and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my family with all my heart. I never lost the need for the necessary distance and privacy.”

22. About humility

“The true worth of a person is determined primarily by the extent to which he has achieved liberation from himself.”

Theoretical physicist, one of the founders of modern theoretical physics, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, public figure and humanist. Lived in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Honorary doctor of about 20 leading universities in the world, member of many Academies of Sciences, including a foreign honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Special theory of relativity (1905).
Within its framework is the law of the relationship between mass and energy: ( E = mc2).
General theory of relativity (1907-1916).
Quantum theory of the photoelectric effect.
Quantum theory of heat capacity.
Quantum statistics of Bose - Einstein.
Statistical theory Brownian motion, which laid the foundations of the theory of fluctuations.
Theory of stimulated emission.
Theory of light scattering by thermodynamic fluctuations in a medium.

He also predicted gravitational waves and “quantum teleportation”, predicted and measured the Einstein-de Haas gyromagnetic effect. Since 1933, he worked on problems of cosmology and unified field theory. He actively opposed war, against the use of nuclear weapons, for humanism, respect for human rights, and mutual understanding between peoples.

Quotes, aphorisms and sayings

Those who have never made mistakes have never tried something new.

There are only two infinite things: the Universe and stupidity. Although I'm not sure about the Universe.

Everyone knows that this is impossible. But then comes an ignorant person who doesn’t know this - he makes a discovery.

The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits.

I don’t know with what weapons the third world war will be fought, but the fourth will be fought with sticks and stones.

If a cluttered desk means a cluttered mind, then what does an empty desk mean?

There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second one is like there are only miracles all around.

The world is dangerous, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

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.

If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.

Logic will take you from point A to point B. Imagination will take you anywhere.

The world is dangerous not because some people do evil, but because some people see it and do nothing.

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.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

It is better to believe than not to believe, because with faith everything becomes possible.

I'm too crazy not to be a genius.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to evolution.

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!

The goal of the school should always be to educate a harmonious personality, and not a specialist.

If the theory of relativity is confirmed, the Germans will say that I am a German, and the French will say that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is refuted, the French will declare me a German, and the Germans a Jew.

Only those who make absurd attempts will be able to achieve the impossible.

The only thing that prevents me from studying is the education I received.

Strive not to achieve success, but to ensure that your life has meaning.

Education is what remains after everything learned at school is forgotten.

The question that puzzles me is: am I crazy or is everything around me?

Anyone who wants to see the results of their labor immediately should become a shoemaker.

Through coincidences, God maintains anonymity.

Only a fool needs order; genius rules over chaos.

Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But it’s not like that at all...

To win, you first need to play.

Imagination is the most important thing, it is a reflection of what we attract into our lives.

Since mathematicians took up the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.

To break through a wall with your forehead, you need either a long run-up or many foreheads.

I never think about the future. It comes on its own soon enough.

A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.

The war has been won, but not the peace.

Learn from yesterday, live today, hope for tomorrow. The main thing is not to stop asking questions... Never lose your sacred curiosity.