Albert Einstein Quotes
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
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I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.
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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
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The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
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If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.
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There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!
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If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
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There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.
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You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.
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You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.
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There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.
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Go out as far as you can go and start from there.
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All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.
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Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.
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There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.
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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
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External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.
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As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.
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Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
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The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.
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Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
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I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.