The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
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Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist who developed special and general relativity. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1921; died in Princeton in 1955.
20 quotes
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.