"Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
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“I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.”
“... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.”
“X plus Y plus ZX is work.Y is play.Z is keep your mouth shut.”
More on Creativity
“The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.”
“My mind is my laboratory.”
“The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.”
More on Youth
“It's difficult enough for a young person to put his soul on the line in front of a lot of drunken people without having that hanging over his head, too.”
“The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.”
“Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.”