Yes, German-born theoretical physicist "the-mad-scientist" Albert Einstein. His intellectual achievements and originality have made his name "Einstein" synonymous with genius.
It is said that Einstein always appeared to have a clear view of the problems of physics and had the determination to solve them.
He had his own strategy and has the ability to visualize his way to achieve his goal.
This Nobel Prize winner has been the inspiration for novels, films, plays, and even works of music (Einstein's Dreams).
He is always being depicted as a mad scientist and absent-minded professor. Interestingly, his wild hairstyle has been widely copied and exaggerated.
Below is a good collection of verified authentic 11 Albert Einstein quotations on Science, education, imagination and other subjects:
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." [1]
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge.Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." [2]
imagination, knowledge, world
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." [3]
life, balance, bicycle, move
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." [4]
talent, curious, passionate
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." [5]
man, read, brain, lazy, thinking
"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need college. He can learn them from books." [6]
learn, facts, college, books
"Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them —these are the best guides for men." [7]
enjoy, joys, suffering, men
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." [8]
spirit, violence, opposition, weak, mind
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." [9]
eternal, mystery, world, comprehensibility
"We have to learn to think in a new way." [10]
learn, think, way
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science." [11]
beauty, experience, mystery, art, science
Note: There are many quotation websites which published quotations wrongly ascribed to Albert Einstein.
Most of these websites DO NOT cite the sources of quotations.
Citation:
[1] Science, Philosophy and Religion, 1941
[2] Interview with G. S. Viereck, “What Life Means to Einstein,” Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929; reprinted in Viereck, Glimpses of the Great, 447
[3] Letter to his son Eduard (5 February 1930), quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe ,2007, p. 367
[4] To Carl Seelig, his biographer, March 11, 1952. Einstein Archive 39-013
[5] An interview with G. S. Viereck, “What Life Means to Einstein,” Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929; reprinted in Viereck, Glimpses of the Great, 437
[6] Written in 1921, on Thomas Edison’s opinion that a college education is useless. Quoted in Frank, Einstein: His Life and Times, 185
[7] To Valentine Bulgakov, November 4, 1931. Einstein Archives 45-702
[8] Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position; 19 March 1940
[9] Article “Physics and Reality”, 1936. Reprinted in Out of My Later Years, 1956[10] The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 9 July 1955
[11] An article Einstein published in the 1930s. It can be found in Ideas And Opinions trans. by Sonja Bargmann, 1954