Quotes about Einstein

Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty".
“Albert Einstein”

We don't know one millionth of one percent of anything.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.  
-- Albert Einstein

If at first an idea isn't absurd, there's no hope for it.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

There are two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.

For those familiar with the officially acknowledged applications of Einstein’s theories of Relativity, it should be easy to see how the mere existence of particles that move faster than light and/or communicate telepathically through an aetheric medium begins to unravel an entire paradigm for understanding the physical universe.  On the subject of the “Crumbling of Certainty” in the wake of such logic-challenging discoveries in quantum physics, Charles Eisenstein writes, “The whole idea of certainty of knowledge, built through objective reasoning, is only as sound as the objectivity at its basis. Question that, and we question the soundness of the entire edifice of experimentally-derived knowledge” on which our current sciences, and the worldview connected to them, depend.

When you put numbers into this formula [E=mc2] and perform a short calculation, the implication is that inside 1 gram of matter lies dormant an energy equivalent to the explosion of about 20,000 kg of TNT. [] But that's obviously wrong, isn't it? How did Einstein cope with this enormous contradiction? No worries, Einstein pointed out that we do not notice energy, but only variations in energy. I feel cold if thermal energy moves from my body into the environment. I feel my car accelerating if I push the accelerator pedal and burn fuel, thereby taking chemical energy from the fuel and converting it into motion. The tremendous amount of energy harnessed inside 1 gram of matter passes unnoticed because it is never released into the world; it's just like a huge reservoir of energy sitting inside a body, never making its presence known.

God may not play dice with the Universe, but we're not Gods so we have to keep rolling the dice until we get it right.

Character of Rene speaking on our choice in the matter – how our thinking literally creates reality.

“Einstein once said, ‘The problem will not be solved by the same minds that created it.’  I always thought that meant that different people needed to come in to solve our problems.  But what about our personal problems?  Someone else can’t necessarily come in and solve them for us.   I,  …  realized that it isn’t someone else’s mind that is needed, it is a change of mind that is needed.    We can change our own minds!  We have the choice to relinquish our past and choose a new set of possibilities.  All we have to do is change our minds.  Einstein also knew it wouldn’t be easy. … He said, ‘Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“We become accustomed to what we believe reality to be and we are overwhelmingly convinced that we are limited in our ability to make that reality any different.  We must give up these convictions and limitations.  I think it was Richard Bach who said, ‘Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they are yours.’”

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein is the Wilber of physics.

Einstein said that if quantum mechanics is right, then the world is crazy. Well Einstein was right. The world is crazy.

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

When scientists use the word God, they usually mean the God of Order. For example, one of the most important revelations in Einstein's early childhood took place when he read his first books on science. He immediately realized that most of what he had been taught about religion could not possibly be true. Throughout his career, however, he clung to the belief that a mysterious, divine Order existed in the universe. His life's calling, he would say, was to ferret out his thoughts, to determine whether he had any choice in creating the universe. Einstein repeatedly referred to this God in his writings, fondly calling him "the Old Man." When stumped with an intractable mathematical problem, he would often say, "God is subtle, but not malicious."

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A problem cannot be solved with the same consciousness that created it.
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It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.