“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her human grandeur to an ever growing degree. Her strength, her purity of will, her austerity toward herself, her objectivity, her incorruptible judgement— all these were of a kind seldom found joined in a single individual... The greatest scientific deed of her life—proving the existence of radioactive elements and isolating them—owes its accomplishment not merely to bold intuition but to a devotion and tenacity in execution under the most extreme hardships imaginable, such as the history of experimental science has not often witnessed.”
―
Albert Einstein
“One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.”
―
Albert Einstein
“There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.”
―
Albert Einstein
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.”
―
Albert Einstein
“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
―
Albert Einstein
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
―
Albert Einstein
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
―
Albert Einstein
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
―
Albert Einstein
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
―
Albert Einstein