Quotes Einstein: a genius of physics and words
Special relativity, general relativity, Albert Einstein published theories at the beginning of the 20th century, perhaps without knowing that they would still be relevant today.
Certainly THE greatest genius of our civilization, Albert Einstein greatly developed quantum mechanics and cosmology. He was also elected personality of the 20th century by the Times.
We offer you a top list of the best quotes from Einstein, a great man who contributed greatly to the development of our era.
15. “Two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity. But as far as the Universe is concerned, I have not yet acquired absolute certainty.”
Albert Einstein won several awards during his life:
- Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921
- Max Planck Medal in 1929
- Jules-Janssen Prize in 1931
- Franklin Medal in 1935
14. “There are only two ways to live your life. One as if nothing were a miracle. The other as if everything was a miracle.”
A chemical element has been named “einsteinium”.
13. “A man’s value lies in his ability to give and not in his ability to receive.”
He invented the ultrasensitive voltmeter, the gas absorption refrigerator and even a hearing correction device.
12. “Great minds have always encountered fierce opposition from mediocre minds.”
He supports the vegetarian cause, even if he himself does not comply with eating neither meat nor fish.
11. “Nothing is closer to truth than falsehood.”
Einstein never defended astrology, contrary to some quotes attributed to him over time.
10. “Amid difficulty lies opportunity.”
He always had a conflicting relationship with mathematics, not being able to “distinguish with certainty what is essential and fundamental from the rest”, preferring the physical sciences.
9. “Insanity is behaving the same way and expecting a different result.”
He traveled to Palestine and participated in the creation of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
8. “Life is like a bicycle, you have to move forward so as not to lose your balance.”
His statue can also be found at the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Letters.
7. “Don’t worry if you have difficulty in math, I can assure you that mine are much greater!”
You can find all of his works in an edition entitled “The Einstein Papers Project”.
6. “I’m grateful to those who said “No”; thanks to them, I did it myself.”
Albert Einstein’s brain was extracted and kept by Dr. Thomas Harvey, who declared that he had not found “particular things to explain his genius”.
5. “The world is dangerous to live in! Not so much because of those who do evil, but because of those who watch and let it happen.”
Years later, new studies showed that his brain had very high levels of glial cells. These would be at the origin of the development of intelligence.
4. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s that I stay with problems longer.”
Einstein loved reading Nietzche as well as Spinoza. He wrote a book in which he asked the question of the place that science takes in humanity, entitled “How I see the world” published in 1934.
3. “A person who has never made mistakes has never tried to innovate.”
He had 3 children: Elisabeth, Hans-Albert and Eduard.
2. “As human beings, we have been endowed with enough intelligence to realize how inadequate it is in the face of existence.”
He will have been married twice. First with Mileva Maric, a fellow student, then with her cousin, Elsa Einstein.
1. “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its life believing that it is stupid.”
He died at the age of 76, in 1955, in the United States, from a ruptured aneurysm and left behind works that revolutionized our modern era.
