Einstein Quotes
261 quotes by 209 authors
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Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist,…
— Stephen Hawking
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And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going 'You know…
— Robin Williams
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A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to…
— Peter Galison
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Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the…
— Roland Joffe
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I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.
— Robert Toth
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Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity,…
— Brian Greene
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Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.
— Paris Hilton
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The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions,…
— Michael Foley
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You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't…
— Max Lucado
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As Einstein queried, 'Why is it that I get my best ideas in the morning while I'm shaving?' Shaving is like meditation with a sharp…
— Gabrielle Roth
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I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow…
— Brian Greene
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Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein.…
— Adolf von Harnack
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Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction…
— Krista Tippett
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It is important to remember that we are energy. Einstein told us that. And energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes form.
— Rhonda Byrne
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'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I…
— Joshua Foer
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Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
— Albert Claude
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Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
— Fred Brooks
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I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.
— Danny Bonaduce
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I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics,…
— G. H. Hardy
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