Einstein is one of the biggest influential personality that has inspired a generation of scientists. There is no better way to fuel your child’s creativity than to read him inspirational quotes from Einstien’s life. Below are some of the best quotes collected from the internet for your child’s encouragement. Scroll down to read.
1. “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.“
2. “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.“ (Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton)
3. “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.”
4. “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.”
5. “A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
6. “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.”
7. “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.”
8. “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
9. “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
10. “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
11. “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”
12. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
13. “Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”
14. “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
15. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
16. “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”
17. “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
18. “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.”
19. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
20. “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.”
21. “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
22. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
23. “In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”
24. “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.“
25. “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.”
26. “Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism; how passionately I hate them!”
27. “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?”
28. “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.”
29. “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.”
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