Chủ Nhật, 29 tháng 3, 2015

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Albert Einstein Quotes 1



In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein was the embodiment of pure intellect, the bumbling professor with the German accent, a comic cliche in a thousand films. Instantly recognizable, like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, Albert Einstein's shaggy-haired visage was as familiar to ordinary people as to the matrons who fluttered about him in salons from Berlin to Hollywood. Yet he was unfathomably profound — the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.

Even now scientists marvel at the daring of general relativity ("I still can't see how he thought of it," said the late Richard Feynman, no slouch himself). But the great physicist was also engagingly simple, trading ties and socks for mothy sweaters and sweatshirts. He tossed off pithy aphorisms ("Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it") and playful doggerel as easily as equations. Viewing the hoopla over him with humorous detachment, he variously referred to himself as the Jewish saint or artist's model. He was a cartoonist's dream come true.

Much to his surprise, his ideas, like Darwin’s, reverberated beyond science, influencing modern culture from painting to poetry. At first even many scientists didn’t really grasp relativity, prompting Arthur Eddington’s celebrated wisecrack (asked if it was true that only three people understood relativity, the witty British astrophysicist paused, then said, “I am trying to think who the third person is”). To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls “the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed, all the turbulence of the 20th century.”


  • Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
  • Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
  • The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
  • I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
     
  • Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
  • Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
  • Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
  • The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
  • We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
  • Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
  • Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you, mine are still greater.
  • Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
  • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
  • In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

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