Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep… — Albert Einstein · Smartyfair

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein1879–1955 · scientist · 1900s Germany & USAAlbert Einstein was a physicist who changed how space, time, and gravity are understood, publishing his groundbreaking theory of relativity in the early 1900s while working as an unknown patent clerk in Switzerland.10 quotes

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Like a bike, you stay upright by keeping going.

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How sure this is: 88% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
What turned up: Letter to his son Eduard (5 Feb 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson's Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), p.367.
Work: Letter to his son Eduard
Occasion: 1930 · Berlin · Fatherly life-advice letter
Sources checked: en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 21 August 2026Sourced 1930s section, letter to Eduard Einstein

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