Альберт Эйнштейн: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 15)

“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”

“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”

“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”

“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

“How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”

“It gives me great pleasure, indeed, to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”

“He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”

“One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.”

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”

“The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”

“Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.”

“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.”

“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”