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Albert Einstein Quotes
- A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and...
- A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of...
- A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary....
- A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. ...
- A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a...
- A storm broke loose in my mind. ...
- A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory....
- All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how...
- All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these...
- An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. ...
- Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ...
- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -...
- Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises...
- Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ...
- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they...
- As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked...
- As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. ...
- Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. ...
- Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish. ...
- [Bias against the Negro] is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers. ...
- By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds...
- Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen. ...
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ...
- Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for...
- Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than...
- Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were...
- E=mc² (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement: If a body gives off...
- Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at...
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school. ...
- Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form. ...
- Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such...
- Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It...
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ...
- Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. ...
- Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. ...
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most...
- Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face...
- Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon...
- God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ...
- God may be subtle, but He isn't mean. ...
- Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. ...
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ...
- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does...
- Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. ...
- He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his...
- He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given...
- Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately...
- How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such...
- How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what...
- Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the...
- I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of...
- I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge...
- I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is...
- I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human...
- I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps...
- I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World...
- I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be...
- I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with...
- I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode...
- I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. ...
- I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to. ...
- I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food. ...
- I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. ...
- I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ...
- I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ...
- I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am...
- I think and think for months and years, ninety-ninety times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am...
- I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in...
- If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y...
- If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ......
- If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ...
- If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby...
- If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare...
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot...
- If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. ...
- If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ...
- If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. ...
- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. ...
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ...
- In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can...
- In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep....
- In the middle of difficulity lies opportunity. ...
- In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ...
- Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its...
- Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. ...
- Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. ...
- It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. ...
- It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ...
- It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely...
- It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to...
- It is only to the individual that a soul is given. ...
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ...
- It is the theory that decides what we can observe. ...
- It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to...
- It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty...
- Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. ...
- Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. ...
- More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our...
- Most people go on living their everyday life: half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is...
- My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was...
- My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My...
- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we...
- Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of...
- No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. ...
- No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics...
- Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ...
- Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the...
- Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us,...
- Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except...
- Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water...
- One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. ...
- One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not....
- One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its...
- One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life....
- Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master....
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ...
- Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law...
- Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. ...
- Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by...
- Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a...
- Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing....
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ...
- Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. ...
- Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ...
- Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. ...
- Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ...
- Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I...
- Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming...
- Something deeply hidden had to be behind things. ...
- Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. ...
- Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. ...
- The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always...
- The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not. ...
- The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while....
- The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil....
- The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ...
- The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that...
- The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. ...
- The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone...
- The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to...
- The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from...
- The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ...
- The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. ...
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. ...
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but...
- The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate...
- The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy...
- The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter...
- The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the...
- The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle...
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and...
- The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. ...
- The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. ...
- The only real valuable thing is intuition. ...
- The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. ...
- The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. ...
- The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for he himself knows...
- The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide...
- The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them....
- The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ...
- The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children...
- The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity...
- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ...
- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. ...
- The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are...
- The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every...
- The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward...
- The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull...
- The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people...
- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other...
- There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it...
- There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would...
- There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it! ...
- There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great,...
- Those people have seen _something_. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know....
- To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most...
- To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. ...
- Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is...
- True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. ...
- Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. ...
- Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ...
- Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. ...
- We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy) ...
- We cannot dispair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings. ...
- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ...
- We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more...
- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no...
- We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. ...
- Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ...
- What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable. ...
- What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies...
- What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. ...
- When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy...
- When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous...
- When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot...
- Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as...
- Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ...
- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of...
- Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness? The simple...
- Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me? ...
- Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me...
- You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New...
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Arietta (Grieg)