Albert Einstein Quotes
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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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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To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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Selection of UN delegates by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.
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I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.
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Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire.
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I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
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Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.
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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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It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.
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God is a scientist, not a magician.
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My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.
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The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
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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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Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
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Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.
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The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
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Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.