Quote

When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.

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
Spend
Seemingly
Becomes
Defining
Week
Solution
Days
Six
Impossible
Management
Problem
Solve
Solutions
Obvious

More quotes by Albert Einstein

Image
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein
Image
I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.
Albert Einstein
Image
The thing is, not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Image
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs
Albert Einstein
Image
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
Albert Einstein
Image
Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up.
Albert Einstein
Image
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
Albert Einstein
Image
If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.
Albert Einstein
Image
So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
Albert Einstein
Image
Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.
Albert Einstein
Image
No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.
Albert Einstein
Image
Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
Albert Einstein
Image
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.
Albert Einstein
Image
Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.
Albert Einstein
Image
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein
Image
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
Albert Einstein
Image
Life is a preparation for the future and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
Albert Einstein
Image
Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.
Albert Einstein
Image
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
Albert Einstein
Image
Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
Albert Einstein