Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
AE
Albert Einstein'The Common Language of Science', radio broadcast (1941)
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)
- 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)
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- Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.William James
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.Bertrand Russell
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell
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