Albert Einstein Gen Quotations

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

The value of a man resides in what he gives

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

The step between genius and insanity is very short.

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?".

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

Intelligence and genius

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

The genius is in making the complex simple.

I'm no more intelligent than the next guy. I'm just more curious.

Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.

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

There's a genius in all of us.

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.

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.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos.