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Quotes from Einstein

What Einstein had to say about matters non-scientific...

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it; he who doesn't pays it.

  • If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper questions to ask.
  • Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it.
  • Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
  • Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.
  • Information is not knowledge.
  • Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
  • Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow...the important thing is not to stop questioning.
  • There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
  • When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
  • Not Einstein, but still good: Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - TS Eliot
  • We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. 
  • Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of gods.
  • Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
  • In theory, theory and practice are the same.  In practice, they are not.