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It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase mans blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors; concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
-Albert Einstein
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
-Albert Einstein
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Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivablethough much less certainthat extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.
-Albert Einstein
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Acceptance
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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
-Albert Einstein
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Action(s)
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
-Albert Einstein
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
-Albert Einstein
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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
-Albert Einstein
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
-Albert Einstein
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
-Albert Einstein
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Age
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.
-Albert Einstein
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People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
-Albert Einstein, in a letter to Otto Juliusburger
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America
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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
-Albert Einstein
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Apathy
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Appreciation
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One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.
-Albert Einstein
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Assumptions
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It is theory that decides what can be observed.
-Albert Einstein
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Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
-Albert Einstein
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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.
-Albert Einstein
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Bravery
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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
-Albert Einstein
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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
-Albert Einstein
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Change
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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
-Albert Einstein
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Class
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The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
-Albert Einstein
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Common Sense
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-Albert Einstein
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Communism
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Conflict
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
-Albert Einstein
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Conformity & Nonconformity
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
-Albert Einstein
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He who joyfully marches 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.
-Albert Einstein
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Confusion
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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
-Albert Einstein
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Conscience
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
-Albert Einstein
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Creativity
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The legs are the wheels of creativity.
-Albert Einstein
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein
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Curiosity
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
-Albert Einstein
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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
-Albert Einstein
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Death
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-Albert Einstein
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Deception/Lying
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
-Albert Einstein
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Difficulty
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein
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Education
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
-Albert Einstein
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Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
-Albert Einstein
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According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
-Albert Einstein
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Effort
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The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
-Albert Einstein
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Endurance
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
-Albert Einstein
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Ethics
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationships; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Also in Cosmic Religion
-Albert Einstein, "New York Times Magazine", November 9, 1930
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Evil
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Excellence
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
-Albert Einstein
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Experience
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The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.
-Albert Einstein
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Facts
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-Albert Einstein
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Fashion
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
-Albert Einstein
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Fate & Destiny
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And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
-Albert Einstein
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Gambling (Gaming)
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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
-Albert Einstein
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Goals
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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
-Albert Einstein
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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.
-Albert Einstein
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God
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
-Albert Einstein
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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
-Albert Einstein
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Government
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
-Albert Einstein
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
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Gratitude
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Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
-Albert Einstein
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Heart
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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
-Albert Einstein
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Help
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
-Albert Einstein
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Humanity
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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
-Albert Einstein
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
-Albert Einstein
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Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
-Albert Einstein, "The Saturday Evening Post", August 26, 1929
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Ideas
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
-Albert Einstein
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On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
-Albert Einstein
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Identity
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This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
-Albert Einstein
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Ignorance & Stupidity
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein
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Imagination
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
-Albert Einstein
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
-Albert Einstein
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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
-Albert Einstein
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Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
-Albert Einstein
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In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
-Albert Einstein
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
-Albert Einstein, What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck, "Saturday Evening Post", October 26, 1929
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Individuality
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Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
-Albert Einstein
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Insanity
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein
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Instinct
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
-Albert Einstein
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Intelligence
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
-Albert Einstein
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
-Albert Einstein
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Intuition
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
-Albert Einstein
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Knowledge
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
-Albert Einstein
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
-Albert Einstein
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Language
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
-Albert Einstein
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Leadership
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
-Albert Einstein
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Learning
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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
-Albert Einstein
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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
-Albert Einstein
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Life
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
-Albert Einstein
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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
-Albert Einstein
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How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
-Albert Einstein
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
-Albert Einstein
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Loneliness
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
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Love
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Love is a better teacher than duty.
-Albert Einstein
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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
-Albert Einstein
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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love
-Albert Einstein
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Manners
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
-Albert Einstein
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Mathematics
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Mediocrity
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein
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Mind, the
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Miracles
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-Albert Einstein
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Mistakes
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein
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Money
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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
-Albert Einstein
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Morals
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
-Albert Einstein
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Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
-Albert Einstein
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Mystery
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-Albert Einstein
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Nature
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us
-Albert Einstein
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Opinion
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
-Albert Einstein
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Past, the
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
-Albert Einstein
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The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-Albert Einstein, Interview, 1930
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Patience
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I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
-Albert Einstein
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Patriotism
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.
-Albert Einstein
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Peace
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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
-Albert Einstein
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Perception
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
-Albert Einstein
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Persistence
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-Albert Einstein
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
-Albert Einstein
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Photography
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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
-Albert Einstein
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Pleasure
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We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
-Albert Einstein
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Politics
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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
-Albert Einstein
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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
-Albert Einstein
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Power
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
-Albert Einstein
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Praise
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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
-Albert Einstein
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Principles
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
-Albert Einstein
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Problems
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Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
-Albert Einstein
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The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
-Albert Einstein
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The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
-Albert Einstein
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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
many versions exist: The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
-Albert Einstein, attributed
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Property
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind
-Albert Einstein
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Questions
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If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.
-Albert Einstein
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Racism
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
-Albert Einstein
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Reality
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It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.
-Albert Einstein, 1933
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Relationships
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Religion
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
-Albert Einstein
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What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
-Albert Einstein
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein
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To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
-Albert Einstein
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Research
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If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
-Albert Einstein
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Results
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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
-Albert Einstein
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Science
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
-Albert Einstein
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The man of science is a poor philosopher.
-Albert Einstein
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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
-Albert Einstein
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
-Albert Einstein
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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
-Albert Einstein
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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
-Albert Einstein
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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.
-Albert Einstein
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
-Albert Einstein
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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science
-Albert Einstein
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
-Albert Einstein, Telegram, May 24, 1946
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One needn't be a crank to miss the scientific boat. The very paragon of genius, Albert Einstein, couldn't be persuaded to give quantum physics his unreserved endorsement. Here is Einstein's most frequently paraphrased statement of dissatisfaction with the theory: Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.
-Albert Einstein, Letter to Max Born, December 4, 1926
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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 my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
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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.
-Albert Einstein, On relativity
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Self Respect
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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
-Albert Einstein
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Service
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...
-Albert Einstein
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Shopping
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
-Albert Einstein
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Simplicity
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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
-Albert Einstein
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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God always takes the simplest way.
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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
-Albert Einstein
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Solitude
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-Albert Einstein
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Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
-Albert Einstein
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Soul
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Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
-Albert Einstein
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Spirituality
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When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
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Success & Failure
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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
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Survival
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
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Taxation
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
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Teaching
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The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
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Technology
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Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
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Terrorism
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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
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Thought
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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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Time
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
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Truth
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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
-Albert Einstein
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
-Albert Einstein
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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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Understanding
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
-Albert Einstein
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Value
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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Vegetarian
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet
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Visualization
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An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
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War
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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.
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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein
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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 fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable loce-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
-Albert Einstein
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Weather
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One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.
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Work
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How do I work? I grope.
-Albert Einstein
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World
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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
-Albert Einstein
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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Books by and about Albert Einstein
