Albert Einstein Quotes
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I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.
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Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.
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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
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I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to.
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There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.
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I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.
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I rarely think in words at all.
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Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should. In fact, life itself is a big miracle. There are so many things that are beyond our understanding. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
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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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The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.
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The next world war will be fought with stones.
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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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On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
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The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.
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Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.
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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
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A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.
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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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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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There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!
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The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.
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The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.
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As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.