Albert Einstein Quotes
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Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
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Time is an illusion.
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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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Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.
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Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhes Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries.
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What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?
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There is possibility in every difficulty.
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The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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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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Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.
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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
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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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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.
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True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
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The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
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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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Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
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I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!
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Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.