------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.'' -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.'' -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?'' -- Albert Einstein, _The_World_As_I_See_It_, 1935 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) ``I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.'' ``What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck,'' for the October 26, 1929 issue of _The_Saturday_Evening_Post_. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.'' -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.'' -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat: you pull the tail in New York and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.'' -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?'' -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.'' -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.'' -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.'' -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.'' -- Albert Einstein, _Ideas_and_Opinions_ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------