Albert Einstein Quotes
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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
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The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities.
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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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The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
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There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: the world as a unity dependent on humanity; the world as a reality independent of the human factor.
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To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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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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The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
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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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We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
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By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
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... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.
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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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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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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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Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
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Toreador pants make your feet look big too.
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Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.
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We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.
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As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".
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God is a scientist, not a magician.