Albert Einstein Quotes
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One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
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It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
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Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.
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I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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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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Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
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Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
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Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust.
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
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I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.
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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
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One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.'
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This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind - the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake - the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism - how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.
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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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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.
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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.