Albert Einstein Quotes
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I love Humanity but I hate humans.
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
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The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
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Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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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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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
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Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
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Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
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There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.
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It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
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Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.
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I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
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Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
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The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.
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The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.