Quote

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Albert Einstein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
Inventor
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
Patent Examiner
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Science
Physicist
Professor
Science Writer
Ulm alb-Donau
Einstein
A. Einstein
Strange
Known
Inspirational
Universally
Loneliness
Solitude
Lonely
Fame

More quotes by Albert Einstein

Image
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein
Image
Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.
Albert Einstein
Image
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
Albert Einstein
Image
What counts can't always be counted what can be counted doesn't always count.
Albert Einstein
Image
I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
Albert Einstein
Image
The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Image
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
Image
(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)The question is much too difficult for me.
Albert Einstein
Image
With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.
Albert Einstein
Image
What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.
Albert Einstein
Image
I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.
Albert Einstein
Image
The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.
Albert Einstein
Image
Conceptions without experience are void experience without conceptions is blind.
Albert Einstein
Image
Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.
Albert Einstein
Image
We are here for the sake of others
Albert Einstein
Image
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein
Image
Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'
Albert Einstein
Image
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.
Albert Einstein
Image
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Image
One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.
Albert Einstein