Food for Thought from my Boo LoL

[Maricel Evasco]

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
  
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
  
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
  
• "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
  
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
  
• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
  
• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
  
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
  
• "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
  
• "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
  
• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
  
• "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
  
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
  
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
  
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
  
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
  
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
  
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
  
• "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
  
• "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
  
• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
  
• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
  
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
  
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
  
• "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as
  far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
  
• "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
  is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
  
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that
  goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
  

more at - http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

[Dazzling Zoomer Gal Diana]

Hahaha - love ZD's comment. I must say - I'll never be able to think of him in any other way now . . .

[ZenDog]

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

I'm not sure about that. Each of us has, it seems, a certain spin . . .