Meski ia mengatakan, "Aku tidak punya bakat khusus. Aku hanyalah orang yang penasaran." namun nama "Einstein" sangat identik dengan kata "Jenius". Hampir tidak ada seorangpun yang menolak jika Einstein dikatakan sebagai prototipe manusia jenius. Berikut berbagai pemikiran dan pendapat sang maskot ilmuwan modern.
-Hakikatku adalah yang aku pikirkan, bukan apa yang aku rasakan
-Selagi ada cinta tidak perlu ada lagi pertanyaan
-Aku Berpikir terus menerus berbulan-bulan dan bertahun tahun, sembilan puluh sembilan kali dan kesimpulannya salah. Untuk yang keseratus aku benar.
-Kalau mereka ingin menemuiku, aku ada disini. Kalau mereka ingin bertemu dengan pakaianku, bukalah lemariku dan tunjukkan pada mereka. (Ketika istrinya memintanya berganti untuk menemui Duta Besar Jerman)
-Kebanyakan orang mengatakan bahwa kecerdasanlah yang melahirkan seorang ilmuwan besar. Mereka salah, karakterlah yang melahirkannya.
-Tanda kecerdasan sejati bukanlah pengetahuan tapi imajinasi.
-Imajinasi lebih berharga daripada ilmu pengetahuan. Logika akan membawa Anda dari A ke B. Imajinasi akan membawa Anda kemana-mana.
-Tidak ada eksperimen yang bisa membuktikn aku benar, namun sebaliknya sebuah eksperimen saja bisa membuktikan aku salah.
-Orang-orang seperti kita, yang percaya pada fisika, mengetahui bahwa perbedaan antara masa lalu, masa kini, dan masa depan hanyalah sebuah ilusi yang terus menerus ada.
-Dunia ini adalah sebuah tempat yang berbahaya untuk didiami, bukan karena orang-orangnya jahat, tapi karena orang-orangnya tak perduli.
-Mencari kebenaran lebih bernilai dibandingkan menguasainya.
-Hidup itu seperti naik sepeda. Agar tetap seimbang, kau harus terus bergerak.
-Sudah saatnya cita-cita kesuksesan diganti dengan cita-cita pengabdian.
-Lebih mudah mengubah plutonium dari pada mengubah sifat jahat manusia.
-Tidak ada yang lebih merusak martabat pemerintah dan hukum negeri dibanding meloloskan undang-undang yang tidak bisa ditegakkan.
-Belajarlah dari masa lalu, hiduplah untuk masa depan. Yang terpenting adalah tidak berhenti bertanya.
-Generasi-generasi yang akan datang akan kehilangan keyakinan bahwa manusia akan berjalan di muka bumi dengan darah dan daging.
-Nilai manusia terletak pada apa yang bisa dia terima.-
-Kalau nilai 9 itu kesuksesan dalam kehidupan, maka nilai 9 sama dengan x ditambah y ditambah z. Bekerja adalah x, y adalah bermain, dan z adalah untuk berdiam diri.
-Orang berjiwa besar akan selalu menghadapi perlawanan hebat dari orang-orang picik.
-Barangsiapa yang tidak pernah melakukan kesalahan, maka dia tidak pernah mencoba sesuatu yang baru
-Hal yang paling sukar dipahami di dunia ini adalah pajak penghasilan.
-Kecerdasan tidak banyak berperan dalam proses penemuan. Ada suatu lompatan dalam kesadaran, sebutlah itu intuisi atau apapun namanya, solusinya muncul begitu saja dan kita tidak tahu bagaimana atau mengapa.
-Kebahagiaan dalam melihat dan memahami merupakan anugerah terindah alam.
-Hanya ada dua cara menjalani kehidupan kita. Pertama adalah seolah tidak ada keajaiban. Kedua adalah seolah segala sesuatu adalah keajaiban.
-Usaha pencarian kebenaran dan keindahan merupakan kegiatan yang memberi peluang bagi kita untuk menjadi kanak-kanak sepanjang hayat.
-Hanya seseorang yang mengabdikan dirinya untuk suatu alasan dengan seluruh kekuatan dan jiwanya yang bisa menjadi seorang guru sejati. Dengan alasan ini penguasaan menuntut semuanya dari seseorang.
-Kalau kau tidak bisa menjelaskannya dengan gamblang/sederhana, maka kau belum cukup memahaminya.
-Di tengah-tengah kesulitan ada kesempatan.
-Kita tidak bisa memecahkan masalah kita dengan pemikiran yang sama pada saat kita menciptakannya.
-Ini sungguh mengejutkan bahwa teknologi telah melebihi kemanusiaan kita.
-Rahasia dari kreativitas adalah mengetahui cara menyembunyikan sumber kreativitas kita itu.
Albert Einstein Quotes (Bahasa Inggris):
1. E = M C2
2. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
3. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
4. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
5. Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
6. You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
7. One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
8. One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
9. He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
10. A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein, Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton:
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
11. Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
12. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
13. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
14. I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
15. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
16. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
17. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
18. I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
19. God is subtle but he is not malicious.
20. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
21. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
22. The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
23. Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
24. Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
25. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
26. Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
27. There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.
28. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
29. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
30. Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
31. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
32. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
33. God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
34. The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
35. Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
36. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
37. The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
38. We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
39. Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
40. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
41. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
42. Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
43. If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
44. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
45. 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.
46. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
47. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
48. In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
49. The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
50. Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
51. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
52. No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
53. 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.
54. Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
55. 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.
Albert Einstein Education Quotes
1. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.
2. Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
3. Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
4. The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
5. Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
6. In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.
Albert Einstein Intuition Quotes
It is better for people to be like the beasts...they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they are doing while they are doing it.
Albert Einstein Life Quotes
1. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
2. The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
3. The most precious things in life are note those one gets for money.
Albert Einstein Peace Quotes
1. He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.
2. The conscientious objector is a revolutionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
3. My pacificism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of people is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
4. There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternative service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
5. It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel.
6. To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
7. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
8. Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.
9. He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein Philosophy Quotes
Everything is determined by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Albert Einstein Science Quotes
1. After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.
2. You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.
3. I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives - the disastrous by-product of the scientific and technical mentality. Nostra culpa. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.
4. Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
Albert Einstein Youth Quotes
1. People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.
2. I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
Other Albert Einstein Quotes
1. Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.
2. I admit thoughts influence the body.
3. Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this county is closely related with this.
4. I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure personages is the only thing that can lead us to find ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always irresistibly tempts its owner to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi with the moneybags of Carnegie?
5. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
6. The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
7. A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
8. The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent or absorbing positive knowledge.
