Albert Einstein's Quotes Collection (183 in 1)
1.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results.
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Albert
Einstein
2.
A person who never made a mistake never tried
anything new.
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Albert
Einstein
3.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and
more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in
the opposite direction.
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Albert
Einstein
4.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not
because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do
anything about it.
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Albert
Einstein
5.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a
pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
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Albert
Einstein
6.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I
or are the others crazy?
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Albert
Einstein
7.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems
like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
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Albert
Einstein
8.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and
human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Albert
Einstein
9.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for
tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Albert
Einstein
10.
A man should look for what is, and not for what
he thinks should be.
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Albert
Einstein
11.
The difference between stupidity and genius is
that genius has its limits.
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Albert
Einstein
12.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small
matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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Albert
Einstein
13.
Gravitation is not responsible for people
falling in love.
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Albert
Einstein
14.
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
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Albert
Einstein
15.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally
foolish.
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Albert
Einstein
16.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't
understand it well enough.
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Albert
Einstein
17.
Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds.
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Albert
Einstein
18.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of
the same tree.
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Albert
Einstein
19.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Albert
Einstein
20.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I
stay with problems longer.
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Albert
Einstein
21.
Education is what remains after one has
forgotten what one has learned in school.
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Albert
Einstein
22.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge
but imagination.
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Albert
Einstein
23.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never
tried anything new.
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Albert
Einstein
24.
No problem can be solved from the same level of
consciousness that created it.
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Albert
Einstein
25.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own
brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Albert
Einstein
26.
Only a life lived for others is a life
worthwhile.
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Albert
Einstein
27.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
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Albert
Einstein
28.
Everything that can be counted does not
necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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Albert
Einstein
29.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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Albert
Einstein
30.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather
try to become a man of value.
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Albert
Einstein
31.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
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Albert
Einstein
32.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will
take you everywhere.
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Albert
Einstein
33.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not
simpler.
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Albert
Einstein
34.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately
curious.
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Albert
Einstein
35.
Science without religion is lame, religion
without science is blind.
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Albert
Einstein
36.
If people are good only because they fear
punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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Albert
Einstein
37.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is
the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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Albert
Einstein
38.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be
achieved by understanding.
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Albert
Einstein
39.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the
measles of mankind.
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Albert
Einstein
40.
An empty stomach is not a good political
adviser.
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Albert
Einstein
41.
Look deep into nature, and then you will
understand everything better.
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Albert
Einstein
42.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the
facts.
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Albert
Einstein
43.
It has become appallingly obvious that our
technology has exceeded our humanity.
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Albert
Einstein
44.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of
life's coming attractions.
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Albert
Einstein
45.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of
character.
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Albert
Einstein
46.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
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Albert
Einstein
47.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of
value.
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Albert
Einstein
48.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature and its beauty.
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Albert
Einstein
49.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any
talent for abstract, positive thinking.
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Albert
Einstein
50.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and
feel with their own hearts.
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Albert
Einstein
51.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence
of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible
universe, forms my idea of God.
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Albert
Einstein
52.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices
acquired by age eighteen.
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Albert
Einstein
53.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent
them.
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Albert
Einstein
54.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we
enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
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Albert
Einstein
55.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no
difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the
treatment of people are all the same.
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Albert
Einstein
56.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand
rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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Albert
Einstein
57.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And
then you have to play better than anyone else.
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Albert
Einstein
58.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant
pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the
people themselves refuse to go to war.
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Albert
Einstein
59.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
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Albert
Einstein
60.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would
not be called research, would it?
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Albert
Einstein
61.
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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Albert
Einstein
62.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind
of thinking we used when we created them.
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Albert
Einstein
63.
Information is not knowledge.
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Albert
Einstein
64.
I know not with what weapons World War III will
be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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Albert
Einstein
65.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very
persistent one.
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Albert
Einstein
66.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if
nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
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Albert
Einstein
67.
Concern for man and his fate must always form
the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst
of your diagrams and equations.
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Albert
Einstein
68.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of
life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
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Albert
Einstein
69.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken
joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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Albert
Einstein
70.
The only thing that interferes with my learning
is my education.
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Albert
Einstein
71.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and
file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by
mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
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Albert
Einstein
72.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small
matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
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Albert
Einstein
73.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
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Albert
Einstein
74.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his
whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands
all of a person.
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Albert
Einstein
75.
All that is valuable in human society depends
upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
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Albert
Einstein
76.
Few people are capable of expressing with
equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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Albert
Einstein
77.
The only reason for time is so that everything
doesn't happen at once.
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Albert
Einstein
78.
The value of a man should be seen in what he
gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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Albert
Einstein
79.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to
reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not
refer to reality.
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Albert
Einstein
80. Whoever
undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked
by the laughter of the gods.
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Albert
Einstein
81.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to
ostentatious virtue.
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Albert
Einstein
82.
Everyone should be respected as an individual,
but no one idolized.
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Albert
Einstein
83.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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Albert
Einstein
84.
Do not worry about your difficulties in
Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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Albert
Einstein
85.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all
the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I
hate them!
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Albert
Einstein
86.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the
government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
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Albert
Einstein
87.
God always takes the simplest way.
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Albert
Einstein
88. I am a
deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
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Albert
Einstein
89.
I live in that solitude which is painful in
youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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Albert
Einstein
90.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's
most beautiful gift.
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Albert
Einstein
91.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind
too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his
own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Albert
Einstein
92.
I never think of the future - it comes soon
enough.
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Albert
Einstein
93.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide
your sources.
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Albert
Einstein
94.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal
education.
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Albert
Einstein
95.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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Albert
Einstein
96.
You can never solve a problem on the level on
which it was created.
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Albert
Einstein
97.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of
the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we
are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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Albert
Einstein
98.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my
imagination.
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Albert
Einstein
99.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is
the income tax.
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Albert
Einstein
100.
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not
simpler.
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Albert
Einstein
101.I think and think for
months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth
time I am right.
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Albert
Einstein
102.
Most people say that it is the intellect which
makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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Albert
Einstein
103.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me
right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
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Albert
Einstein
104.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only
rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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Albert
Einstein
105.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and
cease only at death.
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Albert
Einstein
106.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all
fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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Albert
Einstein
107.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest
are just details.
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Albert
Einstein
108.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet
to be so lonely.
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Albert
Einstein
109.
All these primary impulses, not easily described
in words, are the springs of man's actions.
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Albert
Einstein
110.Small is the number of
people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
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Albert
Einstein
111. You
can't blame gravity for falling in love.
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Albert
Einstein
112. The
distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion.
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Albert
Einstein
113. Without
deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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Albert
Einstein
114. To
raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new
angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
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Albert
Einstein
115. Confusion
of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
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Albert
Einstein
116. Never
do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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Albert
Einstein
117. Not
everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted.
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Albert
Einstein
118.The monotony and
solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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Albert
Einstein
119. There
comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never
prove how it got there.
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Albert
Einstein
120.
True religion is real living; living with all
one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
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Albert
Einstein
121. God
does not play dice.
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Albert
Einstein
122.It is my conviction that
killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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Albert
Einstein
123.The high destiny of the
individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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Albert
Einstein
124.Memory is deceptive
because it is colored by today's events.
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Albert
Einstein
125.The only real valuable
thing is intuition.
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Albert
Einstein
126.I shall never believe
that God plays dice with the world.
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Albert
Einstein
127.True art is
characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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Albert
Einstein
128.
I do not believe in the God of theology who
rewards good and punishes evil.
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Albert
Einstein
129.If you are out to
describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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Albert
Einstein
130.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
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Albert
Einstein
131. Human
beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Albert
Einstein
132.I used to go away for
weeks in a state of confusion.
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Albert
Einstein
133.The important thing is
not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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Albert
Einstein
134.We should take care not
to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no
personality.
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Albert
Einstein
135.The gift of fantasy has
meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
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Albert
Einstein
136.We cannot despair of
humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
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Albert
Einstein
137.The faster you go, the
shorter you are.
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Albert
Einstein
138.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
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Albert
Einstein
139.Science is a wonderful
thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
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Albert
Einstein
140.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
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Albert
Einstein
141. The
release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more
urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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Albert
Einstein
142.Morality is of the
highest importance - but for us, not for God.
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Albert
Einstein
143.Sometimes one pays most
for the things one gets for nothing.
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Albert
Einstein
144.Technological progress
is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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Albert
Einstein
145.The grand aim of all
science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction
from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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Albert
Einstein
146.In order to be an
immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
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Albert
Einstein
147.It should be possible to
explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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Albert
Einstein
148.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are
essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language
comprehensible to everyone.
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Albert
Einstein
149.The unleashed power of
the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift
toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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Albert
Einstein
150.
I do not believe in immortality of the
individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no
superhuman authority behind it.
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Albert
Einstein
151. Let
every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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Albert
Einstein
152.Knowledge of what is
does not open the door directly to what should be.
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Albert
Einstein
153.Pure mathematics is, in
its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
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Albert
Einstein
154.There is no logical way
to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition,
which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
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Albert
Einstein
155.It gives me great
pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly
acclaimed.
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Albert
Einstein
156.Time is what prevents
everything from happening at once.
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Albert
Einstein
157.Never lose a holy
curiosity.
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Albert
Einstein
158.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped
out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of
the earth will be killed.
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Albert
Einstein
159.Solitude is painful when
one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
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Albert
Einstein
160.
We shall require a substantially new manner of
thinking if mankind is to survive.
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Albert
Einstein
161. You ask
me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
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Albert
Einstein
162.Isn't it strange that I
who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
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Albert
Einstein
163.The process of
scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
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Albert
Einstein
164.We still do not know one
thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
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Albert
Einstein
165.It is only to the
individual that a soul is given.
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Albert
Einstein
166.One strength of the
communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion
and inspires the emotions of a religion.
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Albert
Einstein
167.Things should be made as
simple as possible, but not any simpler.
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Albert
Einstein
168.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one
immediately sees results.
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Albert
Einstein
169.You cannot
simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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Albert
Einstein
170.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is
for eternity.
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Albert
Einstein
171. Perfection
of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
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Albert
Einstein
172.One may say the eternal
mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
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Albert
Einstein
173.The man of science is a
poor philosopher.
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Albert
Einstein
174.The most
incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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Albert
Einstein
175.The road to perdition
has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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Albert
Einstein
176.Occurrences in this
domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of
factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
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Albert
Einstein
177.Too many of us look upon
Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated
thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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Albert
Einstein
178.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed
with fear - that engendered religion.
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Albert
Einstein
179.It stands to the
everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome
man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
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Albert
Einstein
180.
The whole of science is nothing more than a
refinement of everyday thinking.
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Albert
Einstein
181.There could be no fairer
destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more
comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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Albert
Einstein
182.
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its
track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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Albert
Einstein
183.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
-
Albert
Einstein
