Quote

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

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
Inquisitive
Extraordinary
Simply
Ability
Individual

More quotes by Albert Einstein

Image
To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?
Albert Einstein
Image
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
Albert Einstein
Image
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.
Albert Einstein
Image
A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.
Albert Einstein
Image
You never fail until you stop trying.
Albert Einstein
Image
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.
Albert Einstein
Image
The value of a man resides in what he gives
Albert Einstein
Image
The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.
Albert Einstein
Image
I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.
Albert Einstein
Image
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Albert Einstein
Image
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
Albert Einstein
Image
I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
Albert Einstein
Image
A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.
Albert Einstein
Image
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
Albert Einstein
Image
Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.
Albert Einstein
Image
Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.
Albert Einstein
Image
A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein
Image
I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
Albert Einstein
Image
To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
Albert Einstein
Image
Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.
Albert Einstein