Albert Einstein vs. Mark Twain

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

1929

"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"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?"

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

1929

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

1929

"If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905."

"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!"

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

"That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics."

"Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which…"

"It is not a religion that teaches that man is made in the image of God—that is anthropomorphic. Man has infinite dimensions and finds God in his conscience. …"

"Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality."

"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."

"And the traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we wa…"

"We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tr…"

"The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are…"

"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 is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

"Liebe Mutter! Heute eine freudige Nachricht. H. A. Lorentz hat mir telegraphiert, dass die englischen Expeditionen die Lichtablenkung an der Sonne wirklich b…"