Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.”
“To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.”
“One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”
“A society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 1930”
“How did he get his ideas? “I’m enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty,” he said, “at least for me.”
“Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.”
“I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality,”
“He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe.”
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