Albert Einstein Quotes
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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.
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What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
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If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.
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I have just got a new theory of eternity.
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Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
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It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification.
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
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That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
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A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.
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One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.
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If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.
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I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful.
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
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To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
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Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
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Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.