Albert Einstein Quotes
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Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.
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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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Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
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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.
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I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
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Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought.
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Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.
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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.
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I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions, and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
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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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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.
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Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.
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Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.
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The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
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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.
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You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.
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In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
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What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
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I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.
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If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.
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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.
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Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.