Albert Einstein Quotes
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We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism.
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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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It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
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The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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The sole function of education... to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
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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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Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
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Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
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Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
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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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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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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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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 will be killed.
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You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
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If quantum theory is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.
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All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.
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Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
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Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
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One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.'
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There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.
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The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.