Albert Einstein Quotes

A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

Albert Einstein

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• I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

  

  Gary Frank
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • Today
  • Mistake

• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Myself
  • Mistake

• The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Problem
  • Mistake
  • Same

• For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Up
  • Home
  • Alone

• If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Control
  • Always
  • Mistake

• Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Experience
  • You
  • Mistake

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Just Because

• I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Different
  • Mistake

• New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Real
  • Money
  • City

• The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Mistake
  • Environmental

• I'm an economist, not a political scientist.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Political
  • Scientist

• I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Think
  • Want
  • Mistake

• People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Drinking

• To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Want
  • Man

• People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Nice
  • Mistake

• 'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Strong

• The gospel breathes the spirit of love. Love is the fulfilling of its precepts, the pledge of its joys, and the evidence of its power.

  

  Gardiner Spring
  • Love
  • Breathe
  • Evidence

• I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.

  

  Bill Callahan
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Cool

• I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

  

  Martin Compston
  • Happy
  • Football
  • Boy

• I’m vegan. It’s really changed, like, my eyes, my, you know, everything.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • Eyes
  • Vegan

• A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mistake
  • Scientist
  • Discovers