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)

More quotes on success

• Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.Rumi
• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances... Strong men believe in cause and effect.Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.Steve Jobs
• I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.Charlie Munger

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