Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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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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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.
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A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.
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A problem defined, is a problem half solved.
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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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Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.
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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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.
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Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought - before there is any connection with logical construction in words or other kinds of signs which can be communicated to others.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
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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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The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.
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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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The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
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The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.
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No scientist thinks in formula.
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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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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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Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
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God always takes the simplest way.