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Albert Einstein Quotes
German-born physicist; originator of the theory of relativity
(1879-1955)



If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
-- Albert Einstein, 1929

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein, 1941

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
-- Albert Einstein, 1946

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
-- Albert Einstein, 1949

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
-- Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-- Albert Einstein

I do not believe in a personal God and have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
-- Albert Einstein, quoted in Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman. Albert Einstein, the Human Side (1979)

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
-- Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein, quoted by Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr Einstein (1950)

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
-- Albert Einstein, quoted in Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman. Albert Einstein, the Human Side (1979)










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