About Albert Einstein

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

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• 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)
• I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.Letter to Carl Seelig (1952)
• 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)

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• Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.Rumi
• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.Henry David Thoreau
• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau
• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David Thoreau
• It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?Henry David Thoreau
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau

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