- “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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October 26, 1929, interview with G.S. Viereck |
- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
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To son Eduard, Feb 5, 1930. AEA 75-990 |
- “Try to become not a man of success but try rather to become a man of value.”
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Quoted by William Miller in Life magazine, May 2, 1955 |
- "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
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From the memoirs of William Miller, quoted in Life magazine, May 2, 1955 |
- "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
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Letter to Carl Seelig, March 11, 1952. AEA 39-013 |
- “For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
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On lifelong friend Michele Besso, in a letter of condolence to the Besso family, March 21, 1955. AEA 7-245 |
- “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
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From “What I Believe,” Forum and Century 84 (1930), 193–194 |
- "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
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AEA 28-523 |
- “I, in any case, am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.”
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To Max Born, December 4, 1926 |
- "It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."
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1921, on Thomas Edison’s opinion that a college education is useless. Quoted in Frank, Einstein: His Life and Times, 185 |
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