Kata-kata Bijak Albert Einstein

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
Quotes
1. 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
Quotes
It 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 Quotes
1. 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 Quotes
1. 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
Quotes
Everything 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 Quotes
1. 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 Quotes
1. 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 Quotes
1. 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.