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| Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. |
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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. |
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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| 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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| 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. |
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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| You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. |
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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| 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. |
Albert Einstein |
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| I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food. |
Albert Einstein |
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| It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing) |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
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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| 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. |
Albert Einstein |
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| If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign |
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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| There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
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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| Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. |
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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| A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. |
Albert Einstein |
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| As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. |
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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| Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
Albert Einstein |
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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 |
Albert Einstein |
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| Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. |
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. |
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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. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
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 not even capable of forming such opinions. |
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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| 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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| Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. |
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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| 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. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. |
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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. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. |
Albert Einstein |
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| It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. |
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 a miracle. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
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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| Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school. |
Albert Einstein |
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| We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. |
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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| Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. |
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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| 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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| 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. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
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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| I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. |
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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| The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
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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| The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. |
Albert Einstein |
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| God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. |
Albert Einstein |
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| A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. |
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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| We cannot dispair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings. |
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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| No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
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. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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. |
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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| Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time. |
Albert Einstein |
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| I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. |
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 only real valuable thing is intuition. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
Albert Einstein |
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| In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not. |
Albert Einstein |
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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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| 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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| 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. |
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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| The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen. |
Albert Einstein |
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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. |
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 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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