How can we solve any problem that we have created ourselves with the same mind that created the problem? This is why we must continue to educate ourselves to grow these minds so that we may be able to solve our own problems.
--Albert Einstein
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
--Albert Einstein, in a letter to his son Eduard, February 5, 1930
There are many many Einstein jokes floating around. Here's one:
Q: How many Einsteins does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: That depends on the speed of the changer, and the mass of the bulb. Or vice versa, of course. Then it just might be easier to leave the bulb alone and change the room. It’s all relative.
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Quotes from Dr. Einstein:
When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help in the greatest of all causes-- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.
The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. ~Albert Einstein, "What I Believe," Forum and Century, 1930
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.
I want to know God's thoughts,..... the rest are details.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.
Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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While it is good to be immersed in Dr. Einstein's life, please remember that this book is fiction, entirely written by Alan Lightman. He obviously referenced Einstein, pulling inspiration from that scientist's life, but Lightman alone is the author of Einstein's Dreams. He was the one that "dreamed up" all those different variations of time.
Click on the photo to read more about Alan Lightman.
