Albert Einstein Quotes
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It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.
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Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.
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One can't teach a cat not to catch birds.
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The Universe is stranger than we imagine!
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Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.
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Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
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The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us.
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Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.
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It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.
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There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.
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There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.
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Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
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Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality.
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The next world war will be fought with stones.
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The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.
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I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
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Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
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Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.
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Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible - and no simpler.
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The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.
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Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
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The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.
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Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.