Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who published over 300 scientific papers and 150 non-scientific papers. He was visiting the USA when Hitler came to power. As he was Jewish he did not return to Germany and instead became a US Citizen in 1940 and played a critical role in warning President Roosevelt about the potential for the Germans to build a new weapon type. This led to the creation of the atomic and nuclear bombs. Time Magazine named Albert Einstein Person of the Century.
While most of the world remembers Einstein for the world’s most famous equation E = mc2, Fearless Revival strongly prefers to remember him for this quote:
The serious or complex problems we face cannot be solved by the same consciousness that created them. – Albert Einstein (alternate version: We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.)
Speaking of quotes, this page (Now removed – https://vptl.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html) was assembled by Kevin Harris in 1995. You can see Einstein always said what he thought about and had quite a low tolerance for stupidity.
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein Quotes
I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details. – Albert Einstein Quotes
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein Quotes
The only real valuable thing is intuition. – Albert Einstein Quotes
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. – Albert Einstein Quotes
I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice. – Albert Einstein Quotes
God is subtle but he is not malicious. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. – Albert Einstein Quotes
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein Quotes
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it. – Albert Einstein Quotes
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein Quotes
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. – Albert Einstein Quotes
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. – Albert Einstein Quotes
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. – Albert Einstein Quotes
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. – Albert Einstein Quotes
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. – Albert Einstein Quotes
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. – Albert Einstein Quotes
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. – Albert Einstein Quotes
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. – Albert Einstein Quotes
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them! – Albert Einstein Quotes
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? – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
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. – Albert Einstein Quotes
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” (Sign hanging in Albert Einstein‘s office at Princeton)