Albert Einstein Quotes
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God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.
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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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It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
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The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.
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How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.
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Free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual. Are we not all children of one father, as it is said in religious language?
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Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.
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All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself.
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I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
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It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.
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Nationalism is the measels of mankind.
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The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
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A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.
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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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Not all that counts, can be counted.
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In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.
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In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.
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The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know.
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You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
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Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.