The famous photograph of Einstein with his tongue. Photographer Arthur Sass.

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I believe in God… who manifests himself in the natural harmony of all things, and not the Lord, who deals with the fate and actions of specific people.
(http://www.aphorism.ru/author/a611.shtml)

From a letter to schoolgirl Phyllis:
But, in addition, everyone who is seriously involved in scientific research is convinced that a certain spirit, much stronger than the human spirit, rules the laws of the universe. Thus, the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special type, which is undoubtedly different from any other, more naive.
Sincerely yours, A. Einstein
January 24, 1936"
(From the site http://www.inpearls.ru/comments/546762)

By means of coincidences, the Lord maintains his anonymity.

When I judge a theory, I ask myself: if I were God, would I arrange the world in this way? (http://www.aphorism.ru/author/a611.shtml)

If the Lord God were satisfied only with inertial frames of reference, he would not have created gravity. (http://www.aphorism.ru/author/a611.shtml)

I cannot believe in God as a being who has a direct influence on the actions of individuals or judges his creatures. I am not able to believe in him, although mechanical causality modern science to some extent questioned. My faith lies in the humble worship of a spirit that is incomparably superior to us and reveals itself to us in the little that we are able to know with our weak, mortal mind. Morality is very important, but not for God, but for us.
(http://www.aphorism.ru/author/a611.shtml)

Does the moon only exist because a mouse is looking at it?

There are only two ways to live your life. The first is as if there are no miracles. The second is as if everything in the world is a miracle.

It is better to believe than not to believe, because with faith everything becomes possible.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more obvious it seems to me that the path to true religiosity lies not through the fear of life, the fear of death or blind faith, but through the desire for rational knowledge.

Man is a part of the whole, which we call the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He feels himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest of the world, which is a kind of optical illusion. This illusion has become a prison for us, limiting us to the world of our own desires and attachment to a narrow circle of people close to us. Our task is to free ourselves from this prison, expanding the scope of our participation to every living being, to the whole world, in all its splendor. No one will be able to complete such a task, but the very attempts to achieve this goal are part of the liberation and the basis for inner confidence.
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Before God, we are all equally smart and equally stupid.
(http://www.aphorism.ru/author/a611.shtml)

Whoever attempts to become a judge of Truth and Knowledge is doomed to hear the laughter of the gods.

The laws of gravity do not apply to the flight of people in love.

Only the life that is lived for the sake of other people is worthy.

The most important of human efforts is the pursuit of morality. Our inner stability and our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions gives beauty and dignity to our life. To make it a living force and to help to clearly realize its significance is the main task of education.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of the people who do evil, but because of those who watch it and do nothing.

The Lord God is sophisticated, but not malicious.

The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to the former.

I have learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later.

My task here is done last words Einstein) (http://www.aphorism.ru/author/a611.shtml)

Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.
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Religious parable about Albert Einstein.
(http://www.inpearls.ru/comments/7435)

A professor at a university asked his students this question:
Is everything that exists created by God?
One student boldly replied:
Yes, created by God.
Did God create everything? the professor asked.
“Yes, sir,” replied the student.
The professor asked:
- If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.
The student fell silent when he heard this answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to the students that he proved once again that belief in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:
"May I ask you a question, professor?"
“Of course,” the professor replied.
The student stood up and asked:
“Professor, does the cold exist?”
- What's question? Of course there is. Have you never been cold?
The students laughed at the question young man. The young man replied:
“Actually, sir, there is no cold. According to the laws of physics, what we think of as cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be examined to see if it has or transmits energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is the complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe how we feel in the absence of heat.
The student continued:
“Professor, does darkness exist?”
— Of course, there is.
You are wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is really the absence of light. We can study light, but not darkness. We can use Newton's prism to split white light into many colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a space is? You measure how much light is presented. Is not it? Darkness is a concept that a person uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.
In the end, the young man asked the professor:
Sir, does evil exist?
This time hesitantly, the professor replied:
“Of course, as I said. We see him every day. Cruelty between people, many crimes and violence around the world. These examples are nothing but manifestations of evil.
To this the student replied:
“Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold, a word created by man to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and heat. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It is like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there is no light.

The student's name was Albert Einstein.
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Here are 63 quotes from Albert Einstein:
(http://www.albert-einstein.ru/aphorism/)

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“There are only two ways to live life. The first is that miracles do not exist. The second - as if there are only miracles around.

“There are only two infinite things: the universe and stupidity. Although I'm not entirely sure about the universe."

"For simpletons, Einstein explained his theory of relativity as follows: "This is when Zurich will stop at this train."

“The only thing that can direct us to noble thoughts and actions is the example of great and morally pure personalities.”

“In my youth, I discovered that the big toe sooner or later makes a hole in the sock. So I stopped wearing socks."

"Man begins to live only when he succeeds in surpassing himself."

“No amount of experimentation can prove a theory; but one experiment is enough to refute it.

“The life of an individual person has meaning only to the extent that it helps to make the lives of other people more beautiful and nobler. Life is sacred; it is, so to speak, the supreme value to which all other values ​​are subordinate.

“It is impossible to solve the problem at the same level at which it arose. You need to rise above this problem by rising to the next level.”

“Man is a part of the whole, which we call the Universe, a part limited in time and space.”

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"Each person is obliged, at least, to give back to the world as much as he took from it."

“Nothing of value can be born out of ambition or a sense of duty. Values ​​arise from love and devotion to people and objective realities this world."

“Peace cannot be held by force. It can only be reached by understanding.”

"The real progress of mankind depends not so much on the inventive mind, but on consciousness."

"There is only one path to greatness, and that path is through suffering."

Morality is the basis of all human values.

"It's time to replace the ideal of success with the ideal of service."

"A person can find meaning in life only by devoting himself to society."

“The goal of the school should always be the education of a harmonious personality, and not a specialist.”

“Ethical behavior should be based on sympathy for people, education and social connections; a religious basis is not needed at all.”

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“Only the life that is lived for the sake of other people is worthy.”

“The true value of a person is determined by how much he has freed himself from egoism and by what means he has achieved this.”

“Strive not to succeed, but to ensure that your life has meaning.”

"I don't know with what weapons they will fight in World War 3, but in World War 4 they will fight with sticks and stones."

"Marriage is an attempt to create something solid and lasting from a random episode."

"The Lord God calculates differentials empirically."

"Process scientific discoveries is, in essence, a continuous flight from miracles.

“The only thing my long life has taught me is that all our science in the face of reality looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet this is the most valuable thing we have.”

"If you want to lead happy life, you must be attached to the goal, not to people or things.”

“If the theory of relativity is confirmed, then the Germans will say that I am a German, and the French that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is refuted, the French will declare me a German, and the Germans a Jew.

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"Common sense is the sum of prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen."

“Nationalism is a childhood disease. This is the measles of mankind."

"War won, but not peace."

“It is very simple my dears: because politics is much more difficult than physics!”

"International laws exist only in collections of international laws."

Seasickness is caused by people, not the sea. But I'm afraid science has not yet found a cure for this disease.

"It's not easy to say what the truth is, but lies are very often easy to recognize."

"He who wants to see the results of his labor immediately should become a shoemaker."

"You will never solve a problem if you think like those who created it."

"A scientist is like a mimosa when he notices his mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers someone else's mistake."

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“What can a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?”

"I have learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later."

“My husband is a genius! He knows how to do absolutely everything except money. (A. Einstein's wife about him)"

"I want to be cremated so people don't come to worship my bones."

"I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler."

“The more my fame, the more stupid I become; and this is undoubtedly the general rule.

“Our mathematical difficulties do not bother God. It integrates empirically."

“Don't deify the intellect. He has mighty muscles, but no face."

"Mathematics is the most perfect way to lead oneself by the nose."

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“Since the mathematicians have taken up the theory of relativity, I no longer understand it myself.”

"It has often happened in physics that significant success has been achieved by drawing a consistent analogy between apparently unrelated phenomena."

“The main thing in the life of a person of my warehouse is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not in what he does or experiences.”

"There is an amazing possibility of mastering a subject mathematically without understanding the essence of the matter."

"All ideas in science were born in the dramatic conflict between reality and our attempts to understand it."

"The Lord God does not play dice."

"The Lord God is sophisticated, but not malicious."

“Everyone knows it's impossible. But here comes an ignoramus who does not know this - it is he who makes the discovery.

“The laws of mathematics that have anything to do with the real world are unreliable; and reliable mathematical laws have nothing to do with the real world.”

"The most incomprehensible thing in the world is that it is comprehensible."

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“If you don’t sin against reason, you can’t get anywhere at all.”

"Everything should be stated as simply as possible, but not simpler."

"Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

(63 aphorisms in total...)

Imagination is everything. This is a preview of future events.
(Albert Einstein)

10 quotes from Einstein about stupidity: (from the site - http://www.inpearls.ru/author/121/)
Selected specially by me.:

There are only two infinite things: the universe and stupidity. Although I'm not quite sure about the universe.

The biggest stupidity is to do the same thing and hope for a different result.

Order is necessary for fools, while genius rules over chaos!

We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is a fool.

The question that baffles me: am I crazy or is everyone around me?

When someone points a finger at the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.

If at first the idea does not seem absurd, it is hopeless!)

“There is a problem, there is no solution. Everyone knows this. And suddenly someone who does not know that there is no solution comes along and solves the problem!”

The freedom of a person in the modern world is similar to the freedom of a person solving a crossword puzzle: theoretically, he can enter any word, but in reality he must enter only one in order for the crossword puzzle to be solved.

I fear that the day will surely come when technology will surpass simple human communication. Then the world will get a generation of idiots.
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+ 10 quotes from Einstein (http://www.aphorism.ru/author/a611.shtml).
Chosen by me:

"Even scientists different countries act as if their brains have been amputated.

Fear or stupidity has always been the cause of most human actions.

Only a few are able to calmly express opinions that diverge from prejudice. environment most people are generally incapable of coming to that kind of opinion.

Any fool can know. The trick is to understand.

In America, you must be self-confident, otherwise you will be treated with contempt and nowhere will you be paid.

I'm too crazy not to be a genius.

A person can find meaning in life only by devoting himself to society.

Strive not to succeed, but to ensure that your life has meaning.

The true value of a person is determined by how much he has freed himself from egoism and by what means he has achieved this.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world is that it is comprehensible."
(http://www.aphorism.ru/author/a611.shtml)

+ 5 quotes from Einstein (http://www.inpearls.ru/comments/240444)

1) The only reason for the existence of time is so that everything does not happen at the same time.
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2) Find simplicity among the confusion; in the midst of discord, find harmony; in difficulty find opportunity...
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3) Learn from yesterday, live today, hope for tomorrow. The main thing is not to stop asking questions... Never lose your sacred curiosity.
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4) Keep it as simple as possible, but not simpler than that.
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5) The process of scientific discovery is, in essence, a continuous flight from miracles.
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10 rules of life from Albert Einstein!
(http://www.inpearls.ru/comments/243276)

1. Be passionate.
“I don’t have any special talent. I'm just passionately curious."

2. Perseverance is priceless.
“All this is not so because I am so smart. This is all due to the fact that I do not give up for a long time when solving a problem.

3. Focus on the present.
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl just doesn't give the kiss the attention it deserves."

4. Imagination is powerful.
“Imagination is everything. It is able to show us in advance how events will develop. Imagination more important than knowledge».

5. Make mistakes.
"A man who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

6. Live in the present.
"I never think about the future - it comes here and now."

7. Give meaning.
“You should strive to be significant, not successful.”

8. Don't expect different results.
"It's crazy to do the same thing over and over and expect different results."

9. Knowledge comes from experience.
“Pure information is not knowledge. The real source of data is experience.”

10. Understand the rules and win.
“You should learn the rules of the game. And after that, you will play like no other.”
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10 golden lessons from Einstein:
(http://www.inpearls.ru/comments/112568)

1. A person who has never made a mistake has never tried something new.

2. Education is what remains after you forget everything you learned in school.

3. In my imagination, I am free to draw like an artist. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination covers the whole world.

4. The secret of creativity lies in the ability to hide the sources of your inspiration.

5. A person's worth should be determined by what he gives, not by what he is able to achieve. Try to become not successful, but a valuable person.

6. There are two ways to live: you can live as if there are no miracles, and you can live as if everything in this world is a miracle.

7. When I study myself and my way of thinking, I come to the conclusion that the gift of imagination and fantasy meant more to me than any ability to think abstractly.

8. To be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one must first be a sheep.

9. You need to learn the rules of the game. And then, you need to start playing the best.

10. It's important not to stop asking questions. Curiosity is not randomly given to man.
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This is what Einstein's office at the university looked like:

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Not everyone is able to understand the theory of relativity. Albert Einstein admitted that he himself did not quite comprehend it. This greatest physicist and mathematician of our time is of interest to most people primarily as an outstanding personality and a person capable of thinking in non-standard categories.

Perhaps as a philosopher he deserves no less recognition than as a scientist. His discussions about life, freedom, the role of the intellect, wealth and the importance of a spiritual attitude to the world around will encourage someone to change their own views on many things that seem very important today.

Of particular interest are the dates of some aphorisms and quotes of the scientist. They should be correlated with the events that took place in the world. These thoughts have not lost their relevance today, many decades later.

It is also likely that these 22 quotes will help you learn more about Albert Einstein and understand him to some extent.

1. About life

“People are like bicycles. They can only keep the balance by moving on” (from a letter on February 5, 1930)

2. About imagination

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while the imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress and generating evolution" (1931).

3. About thinking

“Anyone who reads too much and uses his own brain too little gets into the habit of thinking lazily”

4. About price

5. About the world

6. About happiness

"If you want to live happily, associate life with a goal, not with people or objects."

7. About fate

"The highest destiny of man is to serve, not to rule" (1939)

8. About work ethic

“The state of mind that enables a person to do such work... is akin to the mindset of a religious adept or lover. The need for daily effort comes not from premeditated intent or a preconceived program, but straight from the heart" (1918)

9. About politics

"I was born a Jew, Swiss by nationality, and human in appearance. I am just a human being, without any special attachment to a state or national organization."

10. About ambition

“Nothing of real value comes from ambition or a sense of duty. It is connected, rather, with love and devotion towards people and objective facts ”(July 30, 1947).

11. About knowledge

"Experience is the only source of knowledge."

12. About stupidity

“Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. As for the Universe, I'm not quite sure…”

13. About common sense

"Common sense is nothing but a set of prejudices learned before the age of eighteen."

14. About social conditioning

“Few people are capable of expressing an unbiased opinion that differs from the prejudices that dominate their social environment. Most are not even able to clearly articulate such an opinion.

15. Confronting the crowd

“Great-spirited people are always opposed by mediocre minds. A mediocre mind cannot understand a person who refuses to submit to the blindness of ordinary prejudice and expresses his opinion courageously and honestly. (from a letter on March 19, 1940)

16. About intelligence

“We must not deify the intellect. It certainly has power, but no personality.”

17. About wealth

“I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity, even if it were in the hands of the most devoted servant in the cause of the common good. The example of great and pure people is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and actions. Money only leads to selfishness… Can you imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi with a bag of money?”

18. About talent

19. About skill

“Only one who puts all his strength and soul into his work can be a true master. For this reason, everyone should become masters” (from a letter, July 1947).

20. About freedom

“Everything really outstanding and inspiring is created only by that person who can work freely” (1938).

21. About loneliness

“I am truly a ‘lone wanderer’ and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, and even my family with all my heart. I have never lost the need for necessary distance and privacy.”

22. About humility

"The true value of a person is determined primarily by the extent to which he has achieved liberation from himself."

My desire is to go through the procedure of cremation so that people do not worship the bones as an idol.

By fully devoting oneself to the people, one can find the meaning of life, regardless of the dangers that lie in wait and the length of life.

It is blasphemous to boast of achievements and successes when children are starving, cold and poor, surviving on the margins of society. - Albert Einstein

Imagination has no limits, knowledge is always within limits. Embrace the whole world with fantasy, dreams, imagining yourself as the ruler of the universal universe.

The value of society lies in the opportunities that it provides for the development of personality, individuality.

Order and fools can manage. Genius rules over chaos.

A. Einstein: Strive not for success and local victories, but for the semantic component of life.

The secret of all creativity is the knowledge of sources of inspiration and novelty.

Education is the remnant of knowledge left in the head that we were once taught.

The uniqueness and originality of creativity depends on sources of inspiration, which are carefully and scrupulously hidden from prying eyes. Ideas are especially unique when the whole world is looking forward to your next discovery.

Read the continuation of Einstein's best aphorisms and quotes on the pages:

The life of an individual person is meaningful only to the extent that it helps to make the lives of other people more beautiful and nobler.

There are only two ways to live your life. The first is as if there are no miracles. The second - as if everything in the world is a miracle.

The strength of the spirit cannot replace the sensitivity of the fingers.

Science is not and never will be a finished book. Every major success brings new questions. Every development reveals with time ever newer and deeper difficulties.

There is no space and time, but there is their unity.

Never memorize what you can find in a book.

Seasickness is caused by people, not the sea. But, I'm afraid, science has not yet found a cure for this disease.

It is a great mistake to think that a sense of duty and compulsion can contribute to finding joy in looking and seeking.

The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to the former.

When a young man sits in an embrace with a pretty girl, then a whole hour flies by like one minute. But put him on a hot stove, and a minute will seem like an hour to him. This is the theory of relativity.

The laws of mathematics that have anything to do with the real world are unreliable; and reliable mathematical laws are irrelevant to the real world.

Mathematics is the only perfect way to fool yourself.

If you live as if nothing in this world is a miracle, then you can do whatever you want and you will not have obstacles. If you live as if everything is a miracle, then you will be able to enjoy even the smallest manifestations of beauty in this world. If you live in two ways at the same time, then your life will be happy and productive.

Everyone knows it's impossible. But here comes an ignoramus who does not know this - it is he who makes the discovery.

No problem can be solved at the same level at which it arose.

Anyone who wants to see the results of his work immediately should become a shoemaker.

The knowledge of nature is a drama, a drama of ideas.

Marriage is an attempt to create something solid and lasting from a random episode.

The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to the former.

I never think about the future. It comes by itself soon enough.

The old man had a merciless look; there was no illusion in the world that could lull him to sleep - except for the belief in his own ideas.

A person's worth should be determined by what he gives, not by what he is able to achieve. Try to become not successful, but a valuable person.

There is no doubt that there is a significant element of truth in quantum mechanics... However, I do not think that quantum mechanics is the starting point for the search for a [future theoretical] basis, just as one cannot, starting from thermodynamics ... come to the foundations of mechanics.

I do not know with what weapon the third World War but the fourth - with sticks and stones. – I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Strive not to succeed, but to make your life meaningful

If you want to become a successful entrepreneur, you need to start doing business right now. Wanting to start but being afraid of the consequences will get you nowhere. This is true in other areas of life too: in order to win, you first need to play.

Gravity cannot be responsible for those who are knocked down by love.

Common sense is the sum of prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen.

Everyone knows it's impossible. But here comes an ignoramus who does not know this - it is he who makes the discovery.

To be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one must first be a sheep.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

If you don't sin against reason, you can't get anywhere at all.

Most people don't try anything new for fear of making mistakes. But this is not to be feared. Often, a person who has failed will learn more about how to win than someone who immediately succeeds.

Only those who make absurd attempts can achieve the impossible.

A mathematician can already do something, but, of course, not what they want to get from him at the moment.

Learn the rules and play your best. Simple, like all great things.

Do you think all that simple? Yes, it's simple. But it's not like that at all...

It is very important not to interrupt questions. Curiosity has its right to exist.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere. Logic can take you from point A to point B, and imagination can take you anywhere...

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, and equations are for eternity.

All ideas in science were born in the dramatic conflict between reality and our attempts to understand it.

The meaning of life is only a life dedicated to others ©

The only thing my long life has taught me is that all our science in the face of reality looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet this is the most valuable thing we have.

There is an amazing possibility of mastering a subject mathematically without understanding the essence of the matter.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. All this is not so because I'm so smart. This is all due to the fact that I do not give up for a long time when solving a problem.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, generating evolution.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if there are no miracles, and you can live as if everything in this world is a miracle.

Education is what remains after you forget everything you learned in school.

When you realize how far humanity has come since the cave days, the power of the imagination is felt in full force. What we have now was achieved with the help of the imagination of our great-grandfathers. What we have in the future will be built with our imagination.

Marriage is an attempt to create something solid and lasting from a random episode.

If you look at the world famous people, then you can see that each of them gave something to this world. You have to give in order to be able to take. When your goal is to add value to the world, you will rise to the next level of life.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the incomprehensible. It is the source of true art and science.

You need to learn the rules of the game. And then, you need to start playing the best.

I don't know what weapons will be used in the third world war, but in the fourth, stones and clubs will be used.

It makes no sense to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. – Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

If the theory of relativity is confirmed, then the Germans will say that I am a German, and the French that I am a citizen of the world; but if my theory is refuted, the French will declare me a German, and the Germans a Jew.

Everything should be stated as simply as possible, but not simpler.

The science of politics is a much more complex thing than the science of physics.

When I study myself and my way of thinking, I come to the conclusion that the gift of imagination and fantasy meant more to me than any ability to think abstractly.

Smart people always ask questions. Ask yourself and other people to find a solution. This will allow you to learn new things and analyze your own growth.

It's important not to stop asking questions. Curiosity is not randomly given to man.

In 30 years, you will absolutely forget everything that you had to learn in school. Only what you have learned will be remembered.

A person begins to live only when he succeeds in surpassing himself.

Only those who make absurd attempts can achieve the impossible.

The true value of a person is determined by how much he has freed himself from egoism and by what means he has achieved this.

Dreaming about everything you could achieve in life is an important element of a positive life. Let your imagination run wild and create the world you want to live in.

The secret of creativity lies in the ability to hide the sources of your inspiration.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

There are only two infinite things: the universe and stupidity. Although I'm not sure about the universe.

There are only two infinite things: the universe and stupidity. Although I'm not quite sure about the universe.

The process of scientific discovery is, in essence, a continuous flight from miracles.

No end is so lofty as to justify the unworthy means to achieve it.

Our mathematical difficulties don't bother God. It integrates empirically.

Education is what remains after everything we have been taught has been forgotten.

Life is sacred; it is, so to speak, the supreme value to which all other values ​​\u200b\u200bare subordinate

The war has been won, but not the peace.

Theory is when everything is known, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why. We combine theory and practice: nothing works ... and no one knows why!

I have learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later.

The biggest stupidity is to do the same thing and hope for a different result.

The only thing that prevents me from studying is the education I received.

The main thing in the life of a person of my type is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not in what he does or experiences.

I never think about the future. It comes fast enough.

A person can find meaning in life only by devoting himself to society.

It has often happened in physics that significant success has been achieved by drawing a consistent analogy between seemingly unrelated phenomena.

The question that baffles me: am I crazy or is everyone around me?

Those who have never made mistakes have never tried something new.

Strength always attracts people of low moral character.

In my imagination, I am free to draw like an artist. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination covers the whole world.

You will never solve a problem if you think in the same way as those who created it.

I cannot believe in God as a being who has a direct influence on the actions of individuals or judges his creatures. I am unable to believe in it, although the mechanical causality of modern science is to some extent questioned. My faith lies in the humble worship of a spirit that is incomparably superior to us and reveals itself to us in the little that we are able to know with our weak, mortal mind. Morality is very important, but not for God, but for us.

A person who has never made a mistake has never tried something new.

Ever since mathematicians took up the theory of relativity, I no longer understand it myself.

Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. Physicist, one of the founders of modern physical theory, creator of the Special and General Theories of Relativity, laureate Nobel Prize in physics in 1921. He died April 18, 1955 in Princeton USA.

Quotes, aphorisms, sayings, phrases - Albert Einstein

• The war has been won, but not the peace.

• God is cunning, but not malicious.

• I survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

• The search for truth is more important than the possession of truth.

• Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler than that.

• It is time to replace the ideal of success with the ideal of service.

• Morality is the basis of all human values.

• Nationalism is a childhood disease. This is the measles of humanity.

• The most incomprehensible thing about this world is that it is comprehensible.

• What can a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?

• Before God, we are all equally smart, or rather, equally stupid.

• Only the life that is lived for the sake of other people is worthy.

• Religion, Art and Science are branches of the same tree.

• The world cannot be held by force. It can only be reached by understanding.

• The most difficult thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

• A person can find meaning in life only by devoting himself to society.

• I never think about the future. It comes by itself soon enough.

• Mathematics is the most perfect way to lead yourself by the nose.

• To break through a wall with your forehead, you need either a large run-up or a lot of foreheads.

• The eternally unknowable in the world is that in it that seems to us understandable.

• The only sensible way to educate people is to set an example for them.

• There is only one path to greatness, and that path is through suffering.

• The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to the former.

• International laws exist only in collections of international laws.

• The process of scientific discovery is, in essence, a continuous flight from miracles.

• A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.

• I want to be cremated so people don't come to worship my bones.

• Only those who make absurd attempts can achieve the impossible.

• Perfect means with obscure ends - feature our time.

• Our mathematical difficulties don't bother God. It integrates empirically.

• The more my fame, the more stupid I become; and this is undoubtedly the general rule.

• It is very simple, dear ones: because politics is much more complicated than physics.

• Do you really think the moon only exists when you look at it?

• You will never solve a problem if you think in the same way as those who created it.

• Marriage is an attempt to create something solid and lasting out of a random episode.

• It is not easy to say what the truth is, but lies are often easy to recognize.

• The goal of the school should always be the education of a harmonious personality, and not a specialist.

• Anyone who wants to see the results of his work immediately should become a shoemaker.

• Strive not to succeed, but to ensure that your life has meaning.

• Education is what remains after everything learned in school is forgotten.

• Each person is obliged, at least, to return to the world as much as he took from it.

• Common sense is the sum of prejudices acquired before the age of eighteen.

• In order to punish me for my aversion to authority, fate made me an authority myself.

• I have learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later.

• If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.

• There are two infinite things - the Universe and human stupidity. However, I'm not sure about the universe.

• The real progress of mankind depends not so much on the inventive mind as on consciousness.

• Seasickness is caused by people, not the sea. But, I'm afraid, science has not yet found a cure for this disease.

• A scientist is like a mimosa when he notices his mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers someone else's mistake.

• Everyone knows it's impossible. But here comes an ignoramus who does not know this - it is he who makes the discovery.

• The true value of a person is determined by how much he has freed himself from egoism and by what means he has achieved this.

• In my youth, I discovered that the big toe sooner or later makes a hole in the sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

• The only thing that can direct us to noble thoughts and actions is the example of great and morally pure personalities.

• For simpletons, Einstein explained his theory of relativity as follows: "This is when Zurich stops at this train."

• Ethical behavior should be based on sympathy for people, education and social connections; a religious background is not needed at all.

• It is impossible to solve the problem at the same level at which it arose. You need to rise above this problem by rising to the next level.

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, generating evolution.

• Nothing will bring such benefits to human health and will not increase the chances of preserving life on Earth as the spread of vegetarianism.

• The only thing my long life has taught me is that all our science in the face of reality looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet this is the most valuable thing we have.

• Nothing of value can be born out of ambition or a sense of duty. Values ​​arise due to love and devotion to people and the objective realities of this world.

• Quantum mechanics is really impressive. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet ideal. This theory says a lot, but still does not bring us closer to unraveling the mystery of the Almighty. At least I'm sure He doesn't roll the dice.

• Words were and remain an empty sound; and, serving the ideal only in words, it is impossible to die for it. But personality is created not by what a person hears and says, but by labor and activity.

• As long as the laws of mathematics remain definite, they have nothing to do with reality; as soon as they have something in common with reality, they cease to be defined.

• The life of an individual person is meaningful only to the extent that it helps to make the lives of other people more beautiful and nobler. Life is sacred; it is, so to speak, the supreme value to which all other values ​​are subordinate.

• I would not advise forming a team of inventors because of the difficulty of identifying a real inventor; I think that only a society of loafers hiding from work can come out of this.

• The freedom of a person in the modern world is similar to the freedom of a person solving a crossword puzzle: theoretically, he can enter any word, but in fact he must enter only one in order for the crossword puzzle to be solved.

• Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the desire for truth and understanding. But the source of this feeling comes from the realm of religion. From there - the belief in the possibility that the rules of this world are rational, that is, comprehensible to the mind. I can't imagine a real scientist without a strong belief in this. Figuratively, the situation can be described as follows: science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind.

• He who marches contentedly to the music in the ranks has already earned my contempt. He was endowed with a brain by mistake; a spinal cord would have been enough for him. This shame of civilization must be ended. Heroism on command, senseless cruelty and disgusting senselessness called patriotism - how much I hate all this, how low and vile war is. I'd rather be torn to pieces than be part of this dirty action. I am convinced that murder under the pretext of war does not cease to be murder.

• Man is a part of the whole, which we call the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He feels himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest of the world, which is a kind of optical illusion. This illusion has become a prison for us, limiting us to the world of our own desires and attachment to a narrow circle of people close to us. Our task is to free ourselves from this prison, expanding the scope of our participation to every living being, to the whole world, in all its splendor. No one will be able to complete such a task, but the very attempts to achieve this goal are part of the liberation and the basis for inner confidence.