Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.
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May they not forget to keep pure the great heritage that puts them ahead of the West: the artistic configuration of life, the simplicity and modesty of personal needs, and the purity and serenity of the Japanese soul.
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Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.
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Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
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Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
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We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking.
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I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.
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Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.
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It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
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Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change.
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America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.
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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
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Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.
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This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.
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We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.
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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
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My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.
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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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Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.
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On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.
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Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:"The question is much too difficult for me".
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By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!
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Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.