“Every gift we accept is a tie. Sometimes, one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
Albert Einstein
What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck (Secondary source)
George Sylvester’s interview with Albert Einstein.
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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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“Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“Nothing augments a battalion like success.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source