Einstein Quotes
261 quotes by 209 authors
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
— Pablo Picasso
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
— Pablo Picasso
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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair…
— Salman Rushdie
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Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
— Jerry Saltz
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
— Joe Theismann
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I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
— Studs Terkel
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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love.…
— Dalton Trumbo
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As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics,…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
— A. N. Wilson
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My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.
— Carnie Wilson
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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo,…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what,…
— Bill Watterson
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There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of…
— Harper Lee
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When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but…
— Bill Bryson
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You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the…
— Studs Terkel
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You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time…
— Richard Dawkins
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I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And…
— Ray Bradbury
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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for…
— Steven Wright
Who Wrote These Einstein Quotes
209 authors contributed a total of 261 Einstein Quotes, led by these top contributors: