“Every gift we accept is a tie. Sometimes, one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
Albert Einstein (verified, secondary source)
What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck (Secondary source)
George Sylvester’s interview with Albert Einstein.
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“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.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein (verified, secondary 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.”
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“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Nothing so popular as goodness.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)