Albert Einstein Quotes
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.
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Never before have I lived through a storm like the one this night. … The sea has a look of indescribable grandeur, especially when the sun falls on it. One feels as if one is dissolved and merged into Nature. Even more than usual, one feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.
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Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.
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The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
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What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?
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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
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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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The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.
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The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
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God is a scientist, not a magician.
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There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.
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But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.
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What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
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The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out.
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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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Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
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On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.
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Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
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Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.