[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.So I stopped wearing socks.
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
Einstein gave us a problem he knew we would never solve.
Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy.
By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or tha...
It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo.
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.
I would die of lonely.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt...
Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.
A foot note in Scale, Geoffery West:The full quotation from Einstein is worth repeating because it emphasizes a central dictum of science:"Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completel...
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 feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical d...
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
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust,...
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
I love Humanity but I hate humans
Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.
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