About Albert Einstein

Physicist who developed the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize. (1879-1955)

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More from Albert Einstein

• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.Letter to his son Eduard (1930)
• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.Quoted in 'Death of a Genius', LIFE magazine (1955)
• I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.Letter to Carl Seelig (1952)
• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.Reply to the editors of Youth, quoted in The New York Times (1932)
• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Mein Weltbild / The World As I See It (1931)
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen (1940)

More quotes on creativity and innovation

• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'George Bernard Shaw
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.Kurt Vonnegut
• Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.Ray Bradbury
• We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.Ray Bradbury

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