Quote

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

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
Work
Maxwell
Clerk
Clerks
Fruitful
James
Profound

More quotes by Albert Einstein

Image
It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.
Albert Einstein
Image
An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
Albert Einstein
Image
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein
Image
The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
Albert Einstein
Image
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
Albert Einstein
Image
Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
Albert Einstein
Image
It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.
Albert Einstein
Image
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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
Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Image
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
Image
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.
Albert Einstein
Image
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
Albert Einstein
Image
I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.
Albert Einstein
Image
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.
Albert Einstein
Image
Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
Albert Einstein
Image
Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty
Albert Einstein
Image
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
Albert Einstein
Image
Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
Albert Einstein
Image
If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.
Albert Einstein