Albert Einstein vs. Leonardo da Vinci
Read 20 entries attributed to Albert Einstein alongside 20 attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Albert Einstein alongside 20 attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: science, life, human nature, knowledge, time. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Albert Einstein, entry #22: "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Recorded year: 1929.
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #119: "Up Lake Como towards Germany is the Chavenna Valley where the River Mera") enters the lake. Here are barren and very high mountains with large rocks ... In these mountains the wat…"
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Albert Einstein
1879 – 1955
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation".
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
#Science1929
"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?"
#love"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
#love"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
#love"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
#Science1929
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
#life"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
#Science1929
"There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!"
#nature"Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets."
#science"If we want to improve the world we cannot do it with scientific knowledge but with ideals. Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Gandhi have done more for humanity th…"
#Human Nature"Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he …"
#life"منطق شما را از A به B میبرد، ولی تخیل شما را به همه جا میبرد.» The New Quotable Einstein. Princeton University Press; Enl. Commemorative Ed. / edition"
#education"I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple form…"
#language"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development …"
#power"I do not need any promise of eternity to be happy. My eternity is now. I have only one interest: to fulfill my purpose here where I am. This purpose is not g…"
#knowledge"Geh Recht viel spazieren, dass Du Recht gesund wirst und lies nicht gar zu viel sondern spar Dir noch was auf bis Du gross bist."
"If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the …"
#time"Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed."
#science"Einstein at the American Museum of Natural History"
#nature"Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not ye…"
#knowledgeLeonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519
Leonardo da Vinci (1452) was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance — painter, scientist, engineer, mathematician, and writer.
"Up Lake Como towards Germany is the Chavenna Valley where the River Mera") enters the lake. Here are barren and very high mountains with large rocks ... In t…"
#Ethics"Su per lago di Como di ver Lamagnia (Alemagna, cioè Germania) è valle di Ciavenna dove la Mera fiume mette in esso lago. Qui si truova montagni sterili e alt…"
#Science"3 miglia più in là si trova li edifici della vena del rame e dello argento, presso una terra detta Pra Santo Petro e vene di ferro e cose fantastiche. ( Anci…"
#Science"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or…"
#Aesthetics"Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so …"
#Science"The painter strives and competes with nature...There is nothing in all nature without its reason. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience..."
#Epistemology"3 miles further on are the buildings of the vein of copper and silver, near a land called Prato San Pietro and veins of iron and fantastic things. (paper F.573)"
#Science"As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long."
#Human Nature"Fa vini potenti e assai, … e ‘l vino vale el più uno soldo il boccale e la libbra della vitella un soldo e ‘l sale 10 dinari, e ‘l simile il burro, ed è la l…"
#Science"truovasi di miglio i(n) miglio bone osteriee. ( Ancient Italian)"
#Science"Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street..."
#Science"Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil...."
#Religion"He makes powerful and very strong wines, … and the wine is worth more than a penny per jug and the pound of veal a penny and the salt 10 denarii, and so is t…"
#Science"If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree …"
#time"When you wish to see whether the general effect of your picture corresponds with that of the object represented after nature, take a mirror and set it so tha…"
#knowledge"There will be great winds by reason of which things of the East will become things of the West; and those of the South, being involved in the course of the w…"
#philosophy"Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times."
#knowledge"It is impossible that the eye should project from itself, by visual rays, the visual virtue, since, as soon as it opens, that front portion which would give …"
#philosophy"It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters."
#life"He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss."
#fear