“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.”
Albert Einstein
Autobiographical Notes (Primary source)
In this essay Einstein offer a reflective, philosophical account of his intellectual development rather than a personal memoir.
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“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. One could say that it has affected us quantitatively, not qualitatively.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Disputed“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“The eye of a master, will do more work than his hand.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Take things always by their smooth handle.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source