Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

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.

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.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

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