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Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Book by Albert Einstein · 19 quotes · Relativity, Inspirational, Science

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Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century Quotes

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

“We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“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.”

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”

“Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.”

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.”

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

“One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.”