Albert Einstein Quotes
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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles and not be forced to state them a priori.
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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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A problem defined, is a problem half solved.
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The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.
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The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.
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Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
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No scientist thinks in formula.
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I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
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Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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God always takes the simplest way.
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The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.
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Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
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You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.
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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
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Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
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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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Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings.
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An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
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Reason is intuition's servant.