Albert Einstein a Poet?

Albert Einstein, a famous scientist well knowned for the formula E=MC².

He was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. A German-Swiss Nobel laureate, he is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

But let us not give more details to that as I think we all know that. What was surprising is the other side of Albert Einstein as a poet. My favorite quotation which I really apply to my life was written by him. It's:

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."

Here are some other quotations written by him:

      A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

      A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

      A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

      A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

      A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

      All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

      All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

      All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

      An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

      Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

      Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

      Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

      Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

      Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

      Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

      As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

      As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

      Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

      Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

      Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

      Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

      Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

      Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

      Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

      Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

      Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

      Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

      Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. 

      Force always attracts men of low morality.

      God always takes the simplest way.

      God does not play dice.

      God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

      Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

      Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

      He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

      He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

      Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

      Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

      I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

 

He is really my favorite scientist and I could say that if there's someone famous who has a great impact on my life, no doubt, it'll be Albert Einstein.