Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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Albert EinsteinLetter to Adriana Enriques (1921)
About Albert Einstein
Physicist who developed the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize. (1879-1955)
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)
- 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)
More quotes on learning and wisdom
- What I cannot create, I do not understand.Richard Feynman
- I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.Richard Feynman
- Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.Richard Feynman
- I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.Richard Feynman
- The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.Richard Feynman
- If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.Carl Sagan
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