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Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955.

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When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

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Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.

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Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

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Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

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To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men.

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So long as there are men there will be wars.

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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.

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More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

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The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

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What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

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Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

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Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

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The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has it's limits.

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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

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Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

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If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign

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Ego = 1/ Knowledge: More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

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The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.

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What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

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I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

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We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

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Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

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I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

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Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me

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The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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Truth is what stands the test of experience.

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a jew.

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I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV with sticks and stones.

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Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

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In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

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Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

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If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

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Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

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The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

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Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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Emc (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.

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I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie

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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs.

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The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice.

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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

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I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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The only real valuable thing is intuition.

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We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

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Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it.

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

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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.

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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.

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Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

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He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.

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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so the hell with it ... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.

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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God

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Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

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Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

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The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

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Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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I fear the day when technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will have a generation of idiots”.

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

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A storm broke loose in my mind.

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I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.

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The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.

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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.

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The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

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The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut.

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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

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

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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

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The fanatical atheists...are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional 'opium of the people'—cannot bear the music of the spheres.

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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

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The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not.

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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

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It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel".

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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

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All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.

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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing)

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What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

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Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

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Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

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I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones.

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In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

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It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

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God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

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I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details

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Insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

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It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

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When all think alike, no one thinks very much.

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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

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By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

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He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

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He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

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I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

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Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.

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The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.

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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

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The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

– Albert Einstein

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There are two ways to live your life: one as though nothing is a miracle and the other as though everything is a miracle.

– Albert Einstein

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To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

– Albert Einstein

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We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

– Albert Einstein

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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

– Albert Einstein

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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

– Albert Einstein

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Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

– Albert Einstein

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Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.

– Albert Einstein

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I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)

– Albert Einstein

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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

– Albert Einstein

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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

– Albert Einstein

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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

– Albert Einstein

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

– Albert Einstein

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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

– Albert Einstein

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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

– Albert Einstein

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

– Albert Einstein

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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

– Albert Einstein

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As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives.

– Albert Einstein

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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

– Albert Einstein

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

– Albert Einstein

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

– Albert Einstein

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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

– Albert Einstein

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It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

– Albert Einstein

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Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)

– Albert Einstein

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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

– Albert Einstein

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Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

– Albert Einstein

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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

– Albert Einstein

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Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.

– Albert Einstein

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Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

– Albert Einstein

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We cannot dispair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.

– Albert Einstein

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We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

– Albert Einstein

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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

– Albert Einstein

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always think 360 degrees

– Albert Einstein

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

– Albert Einstein

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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

– Albert Einstein

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both of them to be important and be either priority by your without knowladge it cant add more imaginationbut imagination always be theres without knowladge

– Albert Einstein

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Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

– Albert Einstein

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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

– Albert Einstein

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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

– Albert Einstein

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Everyone is a genius. But, if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

– Albert Einstein

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Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

– Albert Einstein

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

– Albert Einstein

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.

– Albert Einstein

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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

– Albert Einstein

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How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

– Albert Einstein

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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

– Albert Einstein

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I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

– Albert Einstein

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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

– Albert Einstein

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I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.

– Albert Einstein

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I have made many books in my lifetime, but none anywhere near as successful or widely regarded as The Bible.

– Albert Einstein

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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

– Albert Einstein

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I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.

– Albert Einstein

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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

– Albert Einstein

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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

– Albert Einstein

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

– Albert Einstein

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Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race

– Albert Einstein

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Insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting different results, but if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

– Albert Einstein

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Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow. Chirology may be one of the vital sciences of the future. ~ Albert Einstein (“Seeing into the Future” ~ Harvey Day) I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me. I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: “they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.

– Albert Einstein

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It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

– Albert Einstein

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It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

– Albert Einstein

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It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

– Albert Einstein

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

– Albert Einstein

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It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

– Albert Einstein

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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

– Albert Einstein

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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

– Albert Einstein

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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

– Albert Einstein

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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

– Albert Einstein

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Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

– Albert Einstein

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My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

– Albert Einstein

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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

– Albert Einstein

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My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.

– Albert Einstein

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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

– Albert Einstein

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No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love

– Albert Einstein

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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

– Albert Einstein

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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.

– Albert Einstein

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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

– Albert Einstein

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Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

– Albert Einstein

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Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

– Albert Einstein

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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

– Albert Einstein

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People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

– Albert Einstein

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pillar of modern science

– Albert Einstein

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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

– Albert Einstein

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Salt can cook food

– Albert Einstein

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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

– Albert Einstein

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Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

– Albert Einstein

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Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and THINK with their minds.

– Albert Einstein

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Something deeper had to be hidden behind things.

– Albert Einstein

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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

– Albert Einstein

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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

– Albert Einstein

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Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

– Albert Einstein

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

– Albert Einstein

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The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

– Albert Einstein

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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

– Albert Einstein

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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

– Albert Einstein

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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

– Albert Einstein

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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

– Albert Einstein

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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

– Albert Einstein

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The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

– Albert Einstein

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

– Albert Einstein

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The important thing is not to stop questioning.

– Albert Einstein

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The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

– Albert Einstein

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

– Albert Einstein

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The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

– Albert Einstein

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The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

– Albert Einstein

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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

– Albert Einstein

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

– Albert Einstein

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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description

– Albert Einstein

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The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

– Albert Einstein

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There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

– Albert Einstein

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There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.

– Albert Einstein

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There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it

– Albert Einstein

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There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

– Albert Einstein

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This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

– Albert Einstein

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To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

– Albert Einstein

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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

– Albert Einstein

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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

– Albert Einstein

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We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy)

– Albert Einstein

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We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

– Albert Einstein

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We pride ourselves on nothing but the courage to be trivial. For a person is simple in his striving for truth, and it is honest to admit this openly.

– Albert Einstein

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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

– Albert Einstein

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Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

– Albert Einstein

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When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

– Albert Einstein

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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

– Albert Einstein

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

– Albert Einstein

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Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.

– Albert Einstein

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The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

– Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and again and expecting different results, they have a clear road map from those three efforts... this is an enormous waste of time, energy and money.

– Albert Einstein

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Sports