Published on February 12, 2004 By The Gent In Just Hanging Out
These are some words I recieved and they are believed to be Alber Einstein's words. Thanks to Nasim for sending them to me.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving

...Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God --Albert Einstein The Human Side, 1954

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality

I don't believe in mathematics.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it ?

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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 His thoughts; the rest are details.

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe , a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as
something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's
relativity.

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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