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Never judge a book by its movie.

-- J. W. Eagan

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

-- Earl of Chesterfield

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball documentary, 1994

They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal

That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.

-- 'Doc' Edgerton

A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.

-- Maria Edgeworth

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

-- Dave Edison

... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

-- Thomas Edison

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.

-- Thomas Edison

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

-- Bob Edwards

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

-- Tryon Edwards

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 feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.

-- Albert Einstein

A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.

-- Albert Einstein

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

-- Albert Einstein

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

-- Albert Einstein

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

-- Albert Einstein, attributed

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

-- Albert Einstein

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.

-- Albert Einstein

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

-- Albert Einstein

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

-- Albert Einstein

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

-- Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

-- Albert Einstein

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.

-- Albert Einstein

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

-- Albert Einstein

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

-- Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

-- Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

-- Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

-- Albert Einstein

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

-- Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

-- Albert Einstein

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

-- Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

-- Albert Einstein

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

-- Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.

-- Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

-- Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

-- Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

-- Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

-- Albert Einstein

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

-- Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.

-- Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

-- 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

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

-- Albert Einstein

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

-- Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

-- Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

-- Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

-- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

-- Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

-- Albert Einstein

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

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

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

-- Albert Einstein

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

-- Paul Eldridge

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

-- George Eliot

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

-- T. S. Eliot

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

-- T. S. Eliot

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

-- Buke Ellington

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.

-- Harlan Ellison

A man's library is a sort of harem.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

-- Epicurus

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

-- Susan Ertz

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

-- Euripides

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

-- Euripides

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

-- George Bird Evans

You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.

-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern University, teaching an honors calculus course

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

-- Isaac Newton