Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

[Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page. I'm afraid I can't vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that. Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.]

• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
• "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
• "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
• "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
• "God is subtle but he is not malicious."
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
• "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
• "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
• "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
• "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
• "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
• "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
• "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
• "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
• "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
• "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
• "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
• "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
• "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
• "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
• "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
• "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
• "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
• "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
• "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
• "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
• "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
• "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
• "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
• "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
• "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

Stop Laughing n Start Musing...

This Deserves a Mention Here Thusly...

This is hilarious, and also true: if a pizza has a radius 'z' and a depth 'a' that pizza's volume can be defined Pi*z*z*a.

Knock knock. Who's there? To. To who? No, no, no. To whom.

As my chemistry teacher always said, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Argon walks into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve noble gasses here!" Argon doesn't react.

The past, the present, and the future all walk into a bar at the same time. It was tense.

How many computer programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Whoa, no, that's a hardware problem.

I'll be honest, particle accelerators totally give me a hadron.

Oh yeah? Well electronegativity totally gives me a permanent dipole.

Humanities Major: "Hi, nice to meet you! What do you do for a living?" CompSci Major: "I work with Unix." Humanities Major: "Oh my god! That's, that's horrible. We have to organize some kind of rally to help those poor men!" *Eunuchs/Unix*

And now it is the time for some nerdy pick up lines.

Hey baby, if I were a particle and you were a quantum potential, would you let me penetrate your classically forbidden regions?

Baby, I wish I was your derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves.

Having been a chemistry major, I can assure you that this is the only one that actually works. Um. Hey, does this smell like chloroform? Yeah, that might've gone too far.

Hey baby, why don't we go back to my place and I can show you the exponential growth of my natural log?

Nerdy pick up lines end here.

Man walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "Give me ten times the number of drinks everybody in here is drinking." And the bartender says, "Now that, my friend, is an order of magnitude."

How many ears does Spock have? Three: a left ear, a right ear, and a final frontier.

What do I have in common with neutrinos? Uh, we're both constantly penetrating your mom.

Even though, you know, your mom's so fat, that her patronus is a cake.

And she's so ugly not even fluorine would bond with her.

Now you might think that the glass is half full, and you might think that the glass is half empty, but engineers know that the glass is actually two times larger than it needs to be.

Politicians, on the other hand, have assured me that the glass would be more empty if the opposition were in charge,

While surrealists think that the glass is half of a slowly rotting lemon.

And physicists, well they happen to know that you can never know how much water is in the glass because just by measuring it you’ve changed the outcome.

How many Freudians does it take to change a light bulb? Two, one to screw in the light bulb and the other to hold the peni- the ladder, THE LADDER!

René Descartes was drinking some beer in a bar, and the bartender asked him, “Would you like another?” and René Descartes said, “I think not.” Wait no! Wait, ohhh noo…

The majority of people have an above average number of legs. Think about it! It’s true.

How did the constipated mathematician solve his problem? He, uh, he just worked it out with a pencil.

A Higgs-Boson particle goes into a church and the preacher says, “Higgs-Boson’s aren’t allowed in here. You call yourself the God particle; that’s sacrilegious! The Higgs-Boson particle says, “If you don’t allow Higgs-Boson particles, how do you have mass?”

There are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data…

What do The Force and duct tape have in common? Well, there’s a dark side and a light side, and they both hold the universe together.

Heisenberg and Schrödinger are driving in a car and they get pulled over. The police officer asks, “Do you know how fast you were going?” Heisenberg says, “Well, not really but I can tell you exactly where I was.”

The officer thinks that this peculiar response is grounds for a search, and he finds a dead cat in the trunk, and he says, “Do you guys know that there’s a dead cat in your trunk?” and Schrödinger says, “Well, I do now!”


And if you have any other jokes, nerdy or otherwise, please leave them in the comments because I do like stealing your jokes.

Non-Sense...

As I was thinking of writing a blog, I passed by an idea, that an idea can actually change your life. But in love we normally say one life is not enough, while talking of enough- the minds commit enough chain reaction that can delude lesser minds to a distorted fields of virtual reality. Driving through such highways and watching the blissful wind manicure the paddy fields gives you eternal delight.

But then I remembered that I forgot to buy the mixer enamor for the paint of my room and maybe the melty man was weaving another iniquitous plan to assault the shiny mispainted rooms of my mind and heart.

But I have been so indolent all these days that all these rage sets me to a parallel universe where I let my giggle loop surmount in all mine & thine pain.

Whereas pain redirects me to my new found love and fantasy- gain.
"A bird in hand is worth than two in the bush"(not Mr. Push).
Accounting the certainty that there are more then one bird in the bush and the time taken to take them out. Then compare this cost with the available bank loan to buy similar bird(Local policies can override). And paying the reasonable VAT(yes, this is value added tax, although there's no value left).

Now that you have made some profit, it's time to take aunty to buy some sweets. So I take her to the K'aunty Sweets.
Please don't run away I will give you the chance to hit me personally, with the egg

But not all the moments of "your" life are sweet, so the only thing that persisted in sweetness was- Sweet child O' mine. The awesome guitar solo still teaches you the basic- Every Bad Guy Deserves An Egg.

It's pure chance that you get a beautiful neighbor & as we all know and apply- Love thy neighbor & Beat your kids (Russell Peters)... But a true artist can beat his kid, as the paintings of Picasso embroidered with the grace of movements of salsa as the kid prime the beat by uttering the measures of melancholy strain.

But the climax is no ordinary as it stages a duel between the streak and the dark cloud of madness. Madness???, This is Spaaa.... Oops. But suddenly you realize that King Leonidas  died for 300(that such a low count at Dow). And behold the pan-arena is the age of "Arm-strong &Weaky-Pedia"...