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Favorite Quotes By Einstein
Edited by Arden Bercovitz, Ph.D., CSP
21 Creativity Quotes Listed
| "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "My only genius talent is inquisitiveness." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an inexorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says 'Yes' to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says 'Maybe,'and in the great majority of cases simply 'No.'. . . Probably every theory will some day experience its 'No.' Most theories, soon after conception." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "I rarely think in words at all." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more-or-less clear images which can be `voluntarily' reproduced and combined. The above-mentioned elements are, in my case, of visual and some of muscular type." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." -- Albert Einstein | |
| "For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination." -- Albert Einstein | |
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Anne Tiernan, Exec. Dir., Seattle Federal Executive Board
We were enchanted. Everyone was wondering how you knew so much about them. Your deft fielding of impromptu questions and the way you used them to further the themes of your talk simply had people marveling. 
- James Manning, Planetarium Director, Museum of the Rockies
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