Albert Einstein Poems
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
“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.”
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”