Einstein Albert

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live read more

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

..one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful read more

..one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who read more

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This read more

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.