Meski ia mengatakan, "Aku tidak punya bakat
khusus. Aku hanyalah orang yang penasaran." namun nama "Einstein" sangat
identik dengan kata "Jenius". Hampir tidak ada seorangpun yang menolak
jika Einstein dikatakan sebagai prototipe manusia jenius. Berikut
berbagai pemikiran dan pendapat sang maskot ilmuwan modern.
-Hakikatku
adalah yang aku pikirkan, bukan apa yang aku rasakan
-Selagi ada
cinta tidak perlu ada lagi pertanyaan
-Aku Berpikir terus
menerus berbulan-bulan dan bertahun tahun, sembilan puluh sembilan kali
dan kesimpulannya salah. Untuk yang keseratus aku benar.
-Kalau
mereka ingin menemuiku, aku ada disini. Kalau mereka ingin bertemu
dengan pakaianku, bukalah lemariku dan tunjukkan pada mereka. (Ketika
istrinya memintanya berganti untuk menemui Duta Besar Jerman)
-Kebanyakan
orang mengatakan bahwa kecerdasanlah yang melahirkan seorang ilmuwan
besar. Mereka salah, karakterlah yang melahirkannya.
-Tanda
kecerdasan sejati bukanlah pengetahuan tapi imajinasi.
-Imajinasi
lebih berharga daripada ilmu pengetahuan. Logika akan membawa Anda dari
A ke B. Imajinasi akan membawa Anda kemana-mana.
-Tidak ada
eksperimen yang bisa membuktikn aku benar, namun sebaliknya sebuah
eksperimen saja bisa membuktikan aku salah.
-Orang-orang seperti
kita, yang percaya pada fisika, mengetahui bahwa perbedaan antara masa
lalu, masa kini, dan masa depan hanyalah sebuah ilusi yang terus menerus
ada.
-Dunia ini adalah sebuah tempat yang berbahaya untuk
didiami, bukan karena orang-orangnya jahat, tapi karena orang-orangnya
tak perduli.
-Mencari kebenaran lebih bernilai dibandingkan
menguasainya.
-Hidup itu seperti naik sepeda. Agar tetap
seimbang, kau harus terus bergerak.
-Sudah saatnya cita-cita
kesuksesan diganti dengan cita-cita pengabdian.
-Lebih mudah
mengubah plutonium dari pada mengubah sifat jahat manusia.
-Tidak
ada yang lebih merusak martabat pemerintah dan hukum negeri dibanding
meloloskan undang-undang yang tidak bisa ditegakkan.
-Belajarlah
dari masa lalu, hiduplah untuk masa depan. Yang terpenting adalah tidak
berhenti bertanya.
-Generasi-generasi yang akan datang akan
kehilangan keyakinan bahwa manusia akan berjalan di muka bumi dengan
darah dan daging.
-Nilai manusia terletak pada apa yang bisa dia
terima.-
-Kalau nilai 9 itu kesuksesan dalam kehidupan, maka
nilai 9 sama dengan x ditambah y ditambah z. Bekerja adalah x, y adalah
bermain, dan z adalah untuk berdiam diri.
-Orang berjiwa besar
akan selalu menghadapi perlawanan hebat dari orang-orang picik.
-Barangsiapa
yang tidak pernah melakukan kesalahan, maka dia tidak pernah mencoba
sesuatu yang baru
-Hal yang paling sukar dipahami di dunia ini
adalah pajak penghasilan.
-Kecerdasan tidak banyak berperan dalam
proses penemuan. Ada suatu lompatan dalam kesadaran, sebutlah itu
intuisi atau apapun namanya, solusinya muncul begitu saja dan kita tidak
tahu bagaimana atau mengapa.
-Kebahagiaan dalam melihat dan
memahami merupakan anugerah terindah alam.
-Hanya ada dua cara
menjalani kehidupan kita. Pertama adalah seolah tidak ada keajaiban.
Kedua adalah seolah segala sesuatu adalah keajaiban.
-Usaha
pencarian kebenaran dan keindahan merupakan kegiatan yang memberi
peluang bagi kita untuk menjadi kanak-kanak sepanjang hayat.
-Hanya
seseorang yang mengabdikan dirinya untuk suatu alasan dengan seluruh
kekuatan dan jiwanya yang bisa menjadi seorang guru sejati. Dengan
alasan ini penguasaan menuntut semuanya dari seseorang.
-Kalau
kau tidak bisa menjelaskannya dengan gamblang/sederhana, maka kau belum
cukup memahaminya.
-Di tengah-tengah kesulitan ada kesempatan.
-Kita
tidak bisa memecahkan masalah kita dengan pemikiran yang sama pada saat
kita menciptakannya.
-Ini sungguh mengejutkan bahwa teknologi
telah melebihi kemanusiaan kita.
-Rahasia dari kreativitas adalah
mengetahui cara menyembunyikan sumber kreativitas kita itu.
Albert Einstein Quotes (Bahasa Inggris):1.
E = M C2
2. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom
this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand
rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
3. 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.
4. The further the spiritual evolution of
mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to
genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear
of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational
knowledge.
5. Now he has departed from this strange world a
little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in
physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is
only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
6. You see, wire telegraph
is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and
his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio
operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them
there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
7. One had to
cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one
liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that,
after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of
any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
8.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape
from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness,
from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered
nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of
objective perception and thought.
9. He who joyfully marches to
music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a
large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely
suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once.
Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and
ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so
base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
10. A human being is a part of a
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 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,
Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton:Not everything that counts can be counted,
and not everything that can be counted counts.11. 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.
12. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
13.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
14. I
want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
15. The
hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
16.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
17. A
person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
18. I am
convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
19. God is subtle
but he is not malicious.
20. Weakness of attitude becomes
weakness of character.
21. I never think of the future. It comes
soon enough.
22. The eternal mystery of the world is its
comprehensibility.
23. Sometimes one pays most for the things one
gets for nothing.
24. Science without religion is lame. Religion
without science is blind.
25. Anyone who has never made a
mistake has never tried anything new.
26. Great spirits have
often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
27. There
are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle,
the other is as though everything is a miracle.
28. Everything
should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
29. Common
sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
30.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living
at it.
31. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your
sources.
32. The only thing that interferes with my learning is
my education.
33. God does not care about our mathematical
difficulties. He integrates empirically.
34. The whole of science
is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
35.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological
criminal.
36. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be
achieved by understanding.
37. The most incomprehensible thing
about the world is that it is comprehensible.
38. We can't solve
problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created
them.
39. Education is what remains after one has forgotten
everything he learned in school.
40. The important thing is not
to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
41.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you
mine are still greater.
42. Equations are more important to me,
because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for
eternity.
43. If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y
plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
44.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not
sure about the the universe.
45. As far as the laws of
mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
46. Whoever undertakes to
set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the
laughter of the gods.
47. I know not with what weapons World War
III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and
stones.
48. In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of
sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
49. The fear of death is
the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for
someone who's dead.
50. Too many of us look upon Americans as
dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated
thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
51. Heroism on
command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by
the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
52. 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?
53. My religion consists of a humble admiration of
the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight
details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
54.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and
our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for
politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation
stands forever.
55. The release of atom power has changed
everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem
lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a
watchmaker.
Albert
Einstein Education Quotes1. Most teachers waste their time by
asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not
know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to
discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.
2. Never
regard your 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.
3. Humiliation and mental oppression by
ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can
never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
4.
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and
thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the
community their highest life achievement.
5. Teaching should be
such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a
hard duty.
6. In the teaching of geography and history a
sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics
of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are
in the habit of describing as "primitive.
Albert Einstein Intuition QuotesIt
is better for people to be like the beasts...they should be more
intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they are doing while
they are doing it.
Albert
Einstein Life Quotes1. Only a life lived for others is a life
worthwhile.
2. The life of the individual has meaning only
insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and
more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value,
to which all other values are subordinate.
3. The most precious
things in life are note those one gets for money.
Albert Einstein Peace Quotes1. He
who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.
2.
The conscientious objector is a revolutionary. On deciding to disobey
the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause
of working for the betterment of society.
3. My pacificism is an
instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of
people is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual
theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and
hatred.
4. There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way
and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of
alternative service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all.
The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a
view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the
resources of the state in time of war.
5. It is characteristic of
the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic
bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are
held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in
short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and
secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel.
6.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary
murder.
7. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles
of mankind.
8. Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than
an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.
9.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should
be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all
this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to
shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that
killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein Philosophy QuotesEverything
is determined by forces over which we have no control. It is determined
for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or
cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance
by an invisible piper.
Albert
Einstein Science Quotes1. After a certain high level of
technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in
esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always
artists as well.
2. You cannot love a car the way you love a
horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do.
Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ...
Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us
and create an impersonal environment.
3. I believe that the
horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems
from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives - the disastrous
by-product of the scientific and technical mentality. Nostra culpa. Man
grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.
4. Betterment of
conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific
knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
Albert Einstein Youth Quotes1.
People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to
stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were
born.
2. I am content in my later years. I have kept my good
humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
Other Albert Einstein Quotes1.
Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are
able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the
striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to
raise the spiritual values of society.
2. I admit thoughts
influence the body.
3. Nothing is more destructive of respect for
the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot
be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime
in this county is closely related with this.
4. I am absolutely
convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in
the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of
great and pure personages is the only thing that can lead us to find
ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always
irresistibly tempts its owner to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses,
Jesus or Gandhi with the moneybags of Carnegie?
5. Anger dwells
only in the bosom of fools.
6. The tragedy of life is what dies
inside a man while he lives.
7. A photograph never grows old. You
and I change, people change all through the months and years but a
photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of
mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember
them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think
a photograph can be kind.
8. The gift of fantasy has meant more
to me than my talent or absorbing positive knowledge.
