Albert Einstein on Love
Browse 12 quotations attributed to Albert Einstein, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Albert Einstein, entry #679: "When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
Attributed to Albert Einstein, entry #1853: "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?"
12 Quotes by Albert Einstein on Love
"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
"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?"
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things."
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
"No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest."
"I love to travel, but I hate to arrive."
"The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart."
"I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years."
"Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science? The answers to these questions have, for centuries, given rise to considerable dispute and, indeed, bitter fighting. Yet, in my own mind there can be no doubt that in both cases a dispassionate consideration can only lead to a negative answer. What complicates the solution, however, is the fact that while most people readily agree on what is meant by "science," they are likely to differ on the meaning of "religion."