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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Source: Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929)
Authors / Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein quotes
1879–1955 · German-born theoretical physicist
The physicist behind relativity wrote and spoke widely about education, religion and peace. His name now works as a stamp of authority, which is why so many inspirational posters borrow it — the editor of The Ultimate Quotable Einstein keeps a whole chapter of fakes.
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5 quotes traced to Albert Einstein's own work or a reliable witness.
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Source: Letter to his son Eduard (5 February 1930)
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Source: Science, Philosophy and Religion: A Symposium (1941)
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The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Often polished into "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
Source: "Physics and Reality", Journal of the Franklin Institute (1936)
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I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.
The origin of the shorthand "God does not play dice".
Source: Letter to Max Born (4 December 1926)
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5 famous lines credited to Albert Einstein that are misquoted, unsourced or belong to someone else.
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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Actually: Appears in a 1981 Narcotics Anonymous text and in Rita Mae Brown's novel Sudden Death (1983). Not in any Einstein source.
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Actually: No evidence Einstein said or wrote it; versions of the fish-and-tree fable circulated without his name long before.
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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.
Actually: E. F. Schumacher, "Small is Beautiful", The Radical Humanist (1973).
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Actually: Not in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein or any reliable source; Quote Investigator traces it to an internet meme around 2012.
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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Actually: First tied to Einstein in a 1994 leaflet from French beekeepers protesting cheap honey imports.