Albert Einstein Quotes
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The legs are the wheels of creativity.
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Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.
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One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
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There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.
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The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
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If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
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Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
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I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.
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I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but I admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things.
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The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
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But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.
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How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.
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What I particularly admire in him is the firm stand he has taken, not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives very clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
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The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.
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Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.
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Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.
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Only a monomaniac gets anything done.
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For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.