Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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We must learn to see the world anew.
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The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
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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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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
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Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
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It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.
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You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.
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Creativity is Inspiration having fun.
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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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Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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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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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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How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.
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Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.
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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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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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God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
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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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It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.