Mark Twain vs. Albert Einstein
Read 20 entries attributed to Mark Twain alongside 20 attributed to Albert Einstein. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Mark Twain 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: love, human nature, life, time. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #144: "Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul"
Attributed to Albert Einstein, entry #22: "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Recorded year: 1929.
Side-by-Side Comparison
Mark Twain
1835 – 1910
Mark Twain (1835) was an American writer and humorist, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
"Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul"
#Aesthetics"I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfe…"
#Ethics"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
#death"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
#Aesthetics"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
#books"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
#Aesthetics"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."
#love"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
#love"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience"
#Human Nature"Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighbourhood, for all the dead people that lived near m…"
#Ethics"I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."
#Aesthetics"He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."
#Aesthetics"He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty."
#Aesthetics"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
#life"Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare."
#beauty"From the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick to receive the can…"
#time"None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favor at the same time. There are many asses."
#time"The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal."
"It [the press] has scoffed at religion till it has made scoffing popular. It has defended official criminals, on party pretexts, until it has created a Unite…"
#Philosophy"I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a divi…"
#humorAlbert 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…"
#knowledge