Albert Einstein Quotes on Books (7 Quotes)

What guided Einstein was that, in his mid-twenties, he found the unknown intriguing. He felt compelled to comprehend what might have been intended for our universe by The Old One (as he referred to his notion of God). We are in the position, ... of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

My deep religiosity... found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It doe

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

About Newton Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.