Albert Einstein Quotes
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The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.
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I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments.
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Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.
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Nothing happens til something moves.
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It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.
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What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.
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We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.
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Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow.
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What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.
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There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.
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Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
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Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.
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If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile.
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In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.
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He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
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I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.
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We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
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I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.