Ted Shaffner > Ted's Quotes

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
― Bob Samples

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
― Albert Einstein

“God is subtle but he is not malicious.”
― Albert Einstein

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
― Albert Einstein

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
― Albert Einstein

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.”
― Albert Einstein

“Dancers are the athletes of God.”
― Albert Einstein

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
― Albert Einstein

“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”
― Albert Einstein