Albert Einstein Quotes on Communication

5 quotes

  1. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.

  2. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

  3. 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.

  4. You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

  5. Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

    #281 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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