Famous Quotes by Albert Einstein
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"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem."
-Albert Einstein
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-Albert Einstein
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-Albert Einstein
"I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up."
-Albert Einstein
"I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it."
-Albert Einstein
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough."
-Albert Einstein
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Albert Einstein
"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."
-Albert Einstein
"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
-Albert Einstein
"The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematicaly or experimental skill."
-Albert Einstein
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
-Albert Einstein
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I am not sure about the universe."
-Albert Einstein
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."
-Albert Einstein
