Albert Einstein Quotes
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In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.
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Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.
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Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.
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I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
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The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
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Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
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There are six-million shots in the game of pool.
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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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Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
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Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in any war, for any reason or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect.
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It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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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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I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
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Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
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It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.
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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
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It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
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Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
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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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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.