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Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Misattributed
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Misattributed
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Misattributed
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
Attributed Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark (1971)
Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
Attributed
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
What a betrayal of man's dignity. He uses the highest gift, his mind, only ten percent, and his emotions and instincts ninety percent.
Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)
The most important decision we can make is whether this is a friendly or hostile universe. From that one decision all others spring.
Misattributed
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Attributed
Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.
Attributed
The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
Attributed
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.
Disputed
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Misattributed
The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)
Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.
Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Misattributed
We followers of Spinoza see our God in the wonderful order and lawfulness of all that exists and in its soul ("Beseeltheit") as it reveals itself in man and animal.
Attributed Einstein and Religion (1999)
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Misattributed