Albert Einstein Quotes
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
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We must learn to see the world anew.
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I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
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Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.
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I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.
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Creativity is Inspiration having fun.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
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In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.
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To think with fear of the end of one's life is pretty general with human beings. It is one of the means nature uses to conserve the life of the species. Approached rationally that fear is the most unjustified of all fears, for there is no risk of any accidents to one who is dead or not yet born. In short, the fear is stupid but it cannot be helped.
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
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He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.
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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
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Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
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It seems hard to sneak a look at God's cards. But that He plays dice and uses 'telepathic' methods... is something that I cannot believe for a single moment. moment.
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If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us.
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I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...
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Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.
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Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
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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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Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.