30 Albert Einstein Quotes That'll Blow Your Mind Wide Open

These immortal Albert Einstein quotes show why he's history's most beloved genius.

"Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value."

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"Knowledge is limited; whereas imagination embraces the entire world."

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"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."

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"I have reached an age when if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to."

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"Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose."

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"The value of achievement lies in the achieving."

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"A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience."

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"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."

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

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"I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough."

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"Everything is determined...by forces over which we have no control."

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"I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts."

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"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it."

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"Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom."

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"Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew."

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"I believe that a simple and unassuming life is good for everybody, physically and mentally."

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"The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

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"It is important to foster individuality for only the individual can produce the new ideas."

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"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap."

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"All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking."

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"Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals."

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"Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?"

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"Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions."

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"One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness."

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"Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science."

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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

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"The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."

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"We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity--and shape our lives accordingly."

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"In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell."

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"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary."

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TIME magazine's Person Of The Century, Albert Einstein changed the world immeasurably.

He revolutionized physics by developing the theory of relativity and devising the mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc². He helped make atomic weapons a reality, and then helped lead the charge against their usage.

He was, as TIME wrote, "unfathomably profound — the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed."

It's no surprise then that a man like that would utter some of the most fascinating, mind-bending, immortal words in all of modern history. See for yourself in the gallery of Albert Einstein quotes above.

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