"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap."
"In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell."
30 Albert Einstein Quotes That Cut To The Core Of The Human Experience
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TIME magazine's Person Of The Century, Albert Einstein changed the world immeasurably.
He revolutionized physics by developing the theory of relativity and devising the mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc2. He helped make atomic weapons a reality, and then helped lead the charge against their usage.
He was, as TIME wrote, "unfathomably profound — the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed."
It's no surprise then that a man like that would utter some of the most fascinating, mind-bending, immortal words in all of modern history. See for yourself in the gallery of Albert Einstein quotes above.
An All That's Interesting writer since 2013, Erin Kelly focuses on historic places, natural wonders, environmental issues, and the world of science. Her work has also been featured in Smithsonian and she's designed several book covers as a graphic artist.
Based in Brooklyn, New York, John Kuroski is the editorial director of All That's Interesting. He graduated from New York University with a degree in history, earning a place in the Phi Alpha Theta honor society for history students. An editor at All That's Interesting since 2015, his areas of expertise include modern American history and the ancient Near East. In an editing career spanning 17 years, he previously served as managing editor of Elmore Magazine in New York City for seven years.
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Kelly, Erin. "30 Albert Einstein Quotes That Cut To The Core Of The Human Experience." AllThatsInteresting.com, February 20, 2018, https://allthatsinteresting.com/30-albert-einstein-quotes. Accessed August 14, 2025.