Favorite Albert Einstein quote?

[Taltarzac725]

What is your favorite Albert Einstein quote?

[Altavia]

"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler."

[manaboutown]

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”

[tophcfa]

Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving.

Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

[Eg_cruz]

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

[MrFlorida]

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

[HappyTraveler]

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
Sigh, I'm related to some people like that.

[Velvet]

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

I like to stay with something too, I think this attitude is a disposition.

If I may share this with you. I remember we had a calculus problem on a test which I could not solve no matter how I approached it. That particular question stayed with me over the years and every now and then I’d make another attempt, sort of like at a crossword puzzle. Then 3 years after I graduated, in the summer while at the cottage, in a dream, the solution came to me! I was elated. But I have never used the equation for anything. (Calculating the volume of an irregular mass.)

[Taltarzac725]

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"


That seems to fit the same thing I have been doing since Autumn of 1991. Lucy keeps putting down the football but when I run up to kick it I wind up on my butt as she had pulled it away yet again.

[fdpaq0580]

That seems to fit the same thing I have been doing since Autumn of 1991. Lucy keeps putting down the football but when I run up to kick it I wind up on my butt as she had pulled it away yet again.

Hey, Chuck, maybe give golf a try?

[REDCART]

“I never try to remember what I can easily look up.” May not be the exact quote but close enough.

[Taltarzac725]

Hey, Chuck, maybe give golf a try?

Just my luck. An alligator would probably eat it or a despicable constant golfer would steal my game and claim my score. And the onlookers would go along with it.

[Normal]

“God doesn’t roll dice.”

[Boomer]

Attributed to Einstein:
"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."


Boomer

[SoCalGal]

"If you can't simply explain a concept, you don't understand it well enough."

[Greatlawn]

Everything is an illusion. Reality is an illusion, it's just persistent.

[Boffin]

What is your favorite Albert Einstein quote?

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

[goneil2024]

Albert Einstein famously called compound interest "the most amazing mathematical discovery of all time" because it allows for exponential growth, meaning interest is earned not only on the initial principal but also on the accumulated interest, leading to rapid wealth accumulation

[JRcorvette]

"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Einstein had an Evil twin brother…. His name was Franken Einstein :a20:

[Charsaunt]

What is your favorite Albert Einstein quote?

I read that Albert Einstein once met Marilyn Monroe. She said to him "Wouldn't it be great if we had a baby together? The child would have my looks and your brains." He replied "What if the child was born with my looks and your brains?"

[FredJacobs]

I have 2 -

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it."

[Taltarzac725]

I read that Albert Einstein once met Marilyn Monroe. She said to him "Wouldn't it be great if we had a baby together? The child would have my looks and your brains." He replied "What if the child was born with my looks and your brains?"

Very funny.

[Ecuadog]

"I'll take mine with a schmear, bubelah."

[Runway48]

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

I kept this above my desk through most of my career. It was often reinforced after grant submissions.

[MorTech]

"There are only two types of people - Scientists, and Chimpanzees"

[The Chipster]

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

I like to stay with something too, I think this attitude is a disposition.

If I may share this with you. I remember we had a calculus problem on a test which I could not solve no matter how I approached it. That particular question stayed with me over the years and every now and then I’d make another attempt, sort of like at a crossword puzzle. Then 3 years after I graduated, in the summer while at the cottage, in a dream, the solution came to me! I was elated. But I have never used the equation for anything. (Calculating the volume of an irregular mass.)


Put the irregular object in a container of water and measure how much the water level has risen. (Calculus 101 at Florida Atlantic University . . .)