Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, humanist, and philosopher. Regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, he is best known for revolutionizing twentieth-century physics with his contributions to relativity, photoelectric effect, and the unification of the laws of physics. A passionate humanist, he advocated peace, political freedom, and social justice.

Born to Jewish parents in Ulm, Germany, Einstein started studying mathematics at school. He was an average student, and his teachers predicted that he would never amount to much in life. He did not succeed in his first attempt at the entrance exam to a technical college at age 16.

Einstein barely made it through the Zurich Polytechnic Institute and could not get a job in several science fields. He eventually joined the Swiss Patents Office in Bern as an examiner of patent applications and wrote scientific papers during his time off.

Einstein took Swiss nationality in 1901. In 1905, at age 26, he published four papers on the ‘Special Theory of Relativity’ in the German journal Annalen der Physik. These papers broke new ground in physics and included the legendary relation between mass and energy: E = mc-squared. In 1916, he published his work on the General Theory of Relativity. However, it was his work on the photoelectric effect that won Einstein the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity eventually united matter with energy and space with time. His work also helped usher in the age of atomic energy and weapons.

Einstein’s many biographies include Walter Isaacson’s Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007.) Einstein wrote The World As I See It (1934) and Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions (1931; with Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.)

More: Wikipedia READ: Works by Albert Einstein

Recommended Reading

Inspirational Quotes by Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Intelligence

If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be research.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Research

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Time

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Praise

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Responsibility

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Authority

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Soul

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Success

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Science

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don’t have in my mouth.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Philosophy

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
Albert Einstein

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Science

A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Assumptions, Theory

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Law

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Imagination

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Love

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there’s any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism….
Albert Einstein
Topics: Religion

According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people’s education, must serve that end exclusively.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Education

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Life, Entrepreneurs, Happy, People, Goal, Goals

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Truth, Character, The Truth

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Accomplishment

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Life, Philosophy

Before God we are equally wise—and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Wisdom

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Creativity

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
Albert Einstein

I don’t know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth, men will use wood and stones.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Weapon

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Value, Tyranny, Terrorism

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
Albert Einstein
Topics: Individuality

One may say ‘the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility’.
Albert Einstein
Topics: World

Wondering Whom to Read Next?

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *