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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.
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Our lives will be measured by what we do for others.
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Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.
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Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.
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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
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I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?
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Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
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Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.
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We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.
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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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I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
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The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.
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I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.
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Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
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The stupid are invincible.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.