Albert Einstein Quotes
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As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies.
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All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.
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If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.
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I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.
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Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
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When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
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If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?
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God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.
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I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.
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One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.
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The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.
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But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.
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A true genius admits that he knows nothing.
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The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.
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The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage.
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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.
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It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.
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A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.
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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
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If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
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The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.
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Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.
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Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.