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

• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Saturday Evening Post (1929)
• 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)
• 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 learning and wisdom

• The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do.Amelia Earhart
• If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.Isaac Newton
• I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.Isaac Newton
• To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore... whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
• All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie

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