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Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
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Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected.
Albert Einstein
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Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
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Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
Albert Einstein -
It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.
Albert Einstein -
You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.
Albert Einstein -
A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.
Albert Einstein -
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
Albert Einstein
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One picture is worth a thousand words.
Albert Einstein -
The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
Albert Einstein -
The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
Albert Einstein -
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein -
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
Albert Einstein -
Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.
Albert Einstein
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.
Albert Einstein -
It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
Albert Einstein -
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.
Albert Einstein -
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
Albert Einstein -
Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. … Don't stop to marvel.
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Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.
Albert Einstein -
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Albert Einstein