Thinker Comparison

Cory Booker vs. Albert Einstein

Read 20 entries attributed to Cory Booker alongside 20 attributed to Albert Einstein. Compare the wording and topic labels.

This page places 20 entries attributed to Cory Booker alongside 20 attributed to Albert Einstein. 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: life, knowledge, love, justice, leadership. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.

Attributed to Cory Booker, entry #216106: "Cory Booker for Senate"

Attributed to Albert Einstein, entry #22: "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Recorded year: 1929.

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Cory Booker

1969

Politics
United States
28 quotes

Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey.

"Cory Booker for Senate"

#books

"Immediately I knew that was problematic . Because the show starts with our bios, and it starts with, ‘John Lewis, hero of the civil rights movement stood on …"

#life

"Sometimes you go in the pit before you go to the palace, right? You know? And that was the story of Saint Joseph ... Martin Luther King was slain, they wrote…"

#hope

"You are dipping into the Kool-aid and you do not even know the flavor ."

#knowledge

"I’m not here to tell folk just what they should know, I’m here to call on folk to understand that in a moral moment, there is no neutral. In a moral moment, …"

#knowledge

"Working Americans would tell you that the dignity of work is being stripped ... they are working harder than their parents and falling further behind ... whi…"

#family

"The "power of the people" is greater than the "people in power" ... Change does not come from Washington, it comes to Washington."

#change

"There is great dignity in work – and in America, if you want to provide for your family, you should be able to find a full-time job that pays a fair wage. Th…"

#time

"I don’t think most Americans realize that the way we raise animals is such a betrayal of the heritage of our grandparents. I don’t think they realize that … …"

#life

"I’m a big believer that if America, if this country hasn’t broken your heart, then you don’t love her enough. Because there’s things that are savagely wrong …"

#love

"... marijuana in our country is already legal for privileged people ... the war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people."

#books

"Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender."

#justice

"原文:... I hear him literally say that "I don’t think we should legalize marijuana." I thought you might have been high when you said it ... marijuana in our c…"

#mind

"We prove worthy of the privileges that we have not by paying anything back, but by paying it forward."

#war

"We are brick city. We are like bricks themselves. We are strong. We are resilient. We are enduring."

#human nature

"The reality is we have to make sure that we have a military that’s prepared, but right now, we have more military spending than the next 10, 11, 12 countries…"

#truth

"Most people think that these high-density poor neighborhoods, predominately people of color, just came about through some accident of history, but they were …"

#justice

"Lets you and I try to live on food stamps in New Jersey and feed a family for a week or month. U game?"

#family

"We say an oath that we are a nation of liberty and justice for all, but that’s just words. It’s a civic faith, but I’m one of these people that says before y…"

#justice

"We make a grave mistake when we assume this spirit of connectedness is automatic or inevitable. It is not a birthright. A united country is an enduring strug…"

#leadership
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Albert Einstein

1879 – 1955

Science
Cisleithania
362 quotes

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."

#Science

1929

"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."

#Science

1929

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

#Science

1929

"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…"

#religion

"Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets."

#science

"The meaning of relativity has been widely misunderstood. Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. Relativity, as I see it, merely denotes t…"

#life

"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

"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…"

#leadership

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of…"

#freedom

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

#death

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

#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."

"The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation."

#justice

"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

#politics

"Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less."

#knowledge

"The moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its in…"

#wisdom

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

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