Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German born scientist widely regarded as one of the greatest physicists in history, if not the greatest. While most known for his scientific achievement, Albert Einstein’s popularity with the commoner lies in his non scientific legacy. We look at 10 famous Einstein quotes about life.
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#10
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
#9
“To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. “
#8
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
#7
“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. “
#6
“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.”
#5
“You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people … Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.”
#4
” I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. “
#3
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
#2
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. “
#1
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”