Albert Einstein Eat Quotations

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.

Failure is success in progress

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.

Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.

Creativity is Inspiration having fun

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions

Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.'

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.

You can't solve a problem on the same level you created it.

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicty of its premises is.

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

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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.

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.

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.

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into it's international affairs, which without the pressure of fear, it would not do.