Albert Einstein Quotes
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There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.
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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.
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It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
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I came- though the child of entirely irreligious Jewish parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.
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You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
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The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.
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My deep religiosity found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
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The Universe is a friendly place.
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In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
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Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.
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An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.
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While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.
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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
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It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.
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Intelligence and genius.
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Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.
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The only race I know is the human one.
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If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.
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The longing to behold this pre-established harmony of phenomena and theoretical principles, is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ...
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Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.
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You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified...
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Live your life... as though everything is a miracle.
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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human or animal mind.