Albert Einstein Quotes
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
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No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
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There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
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The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
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Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
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I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
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God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.
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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.
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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
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Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
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Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.
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Even a fool is wise after an event.
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My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.
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No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
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Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
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When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.