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... A Person Who Is Religiously Enlightened Appears To Me To Be One Who Has, To The Best Of His Ability, Liberated Himself From The Fetters Of His Selfish Desires And Is Preoccupied With Thoughts, Feelings, And Aspirations To Which He Clings Because Of Their Superpersonal Value.

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To A Student: Dear Miss - I Have Read About Sixteen Pages Of Your Manuscript . . . I Suffered Exactly The Same Treatment At The Hands Of My Teachers Who Disliked Me For My Independence And Passed Over Me When They Wanted Assistants. . . . Keep Your Manuscript For Your Sons And Daughters, In Order That They May Derive Consolation From It And Not Give A Damn For What Their Teachers Tell Them Or Think Of Them. . . . There Is Too Much Education Altogether.

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.

But Their Intervention Makes Our Acts To Serve Ever Less Merely The Immediate Claims Of Our Instincts.

Mere Thinking Cannot Reveal To Us The Highest Purpose.

Men Like Henry George [ The Pioneer Of Land Value Taxation] Are Rare, Unfortunately. One Cannot Imagine A More Beautiful Combination Of Intellectual Keenness, Artistic Form, And Fervent Love Of Justice.

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Knowledge Is Limited. Imagination Encircles The World.

Creativity Is Contagious. Pass It On.

There Is An Atmosphere Of Well-sounding Oratory That Likes To Attach Itself To Dress Clothes. Away With It!

My Scientific Work Is Motivated By An Irresistible Longing To Understand The Secrets Of Nature And By No Other Feeling. My Love For Justice And Striving To Contribute Towards The Improvement Of Human Conditions Are Quite Independent From My Scientific Interests.

Don't Think About Why You Question, Simply Don't Stop Questioning. Don't Worry About What You Can't Answer, And Don't Try To Explain What You Can't Know. Curiosity Is Its Own Reason. Aren't You In Awe When You Contemplate The Mysteries Of Eternity, Of Life, Of The Marvelous Structure Behind Reality? And This Is The Miracle Of The Human Mind - To Use Its Constructions, Concepts, And Formulas As Tools To Explain What Man Sees, Feels And Touches. Try To Comprehend A Little More Each Day. Have Holy Curiosity.

I Think 99 Times And Find Nothing. I Stop Thinking, Swim In The Silence, And The Truth Comes To Me.

People Are Like Bicycles. They Can Keep Their Balance Only As Long As They Keep Moving.

Time Is An Illusion.

To One Bent On Age, Death Will Come As A Release. I Feel This Quite Strongly Now That I Have Grown Old Myself And Have Come To Regard Death Like An Old Debt, At Long Last To Be Discharged.

The State Was Made For Man, Not Man For State.

Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle. To Keep Your Balance, You Must Keep Moving.

I Shall Never Believe That God Plays Dice With The World.

Culture In Its Higher Forms Is A Delicate Plant Which Depends On A Complicated Set Of Conditions And Is Wont To Flourish Only In A Few Places At Any Given Time.

To Act Intelligently In Human Affairs Is Only Possible If An Attempt Is Made To Understand The Thoughts, Motives, And Apprehension Of One's Opponent So Fully That One Can See The World Through Their Eyes.

Striving For Social Justice Is The Most Valuable Thing To Do In Life.

It Is High Time The Ideal Of Success Should Be Replaced With The Ideal Of Service.

The Trouble With The Younger Generation Is That They Don't Stay Young For Very Long.

The Economic Anarchy Of Capitalist Society As It Exists Today Is, In My Opinion, The Real Source Of Evil.

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.

Some Men Spend A Lifetime In An Attempt To Comprehend The Complexities Of Women. Others Pre-occupy Themselves With Somewhat Simpler Tasks, Such As Understanding The Theory Of Relativity!

Nonsense, Seems To Sum Up Everything.

Don't Dream Of Being A Good Person, Be A Human Being Is Valuable And Gives Value To Life.

You Can't Resolve A Dilemma With All The Very Same Mind That Made It

To Understand The World One Must Not Be Worrying About One's Self.

Am I, Or The Others Crazy?

It Is Not By Sitting Still At A Grand Distance And Calling The Human Race Larvae That Men Are To Be Helped.

It Is Very Difficult To Explain This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It. The Individual Feels The Nothingness Of Human Desires And Aims And The Sublimity And Marvelous Order Which Reveal Themselves Both In Nature And In The World Of Though. He Looks Upon Individual Existence As A Sort Of Prison And Wants To Experience The Universe As A Single Significant Whole.

The Mathematician Knows Some Things, No Doubt, But Not Those Things One Usually Wants To Get From Him.

It Is Always Delightful When A Great And Beautiful Idea Proves To Be Consonant With Reality.

However We Select From Nature A Complex [of Phenomena] Using The Criterion Of Simplicity, In No Case Will Its Theoretical Treatment Turn Out To Be Forever Appropriate (sufficient).... I Do Not Doubt That The Day Will Come When [general Relativity], Too, Will Have To Yield To Another One, For Reasons Which At Present We Do Not Yet Surmise. I Believe That This Process Of Deepening Theory Has No Limits.

It Is Better To Believe Than To Disbelieve; In Doing You Bring Everything To The Realm Of Possibility.

Since The Mathematicians Have Invaded The Theory Of Relativity I Do Not Understand It Myself Any More.

We Can't Solve Today's Problems With The Mentality That Created Them.

... It Is A Welcome Symptom In An Age Which Is Commonly Denounced As Materialistic, That It Makes Heroes Of Men Whose Goals Lie Wholly In The Intellectual And Moral Sphere.

When You Look At Yourself From A Universal Standpoint, Something Inside Always Reminds Or Informs You That There Are Bigger And Better Things To Worry About.

God May Be Subtle, But He Isn't Plain Mean.

Our Separation From Each Other Is An Optical Illusion.

It Is A Precarious Undertaking To Say Anything Reliable About Aims And Intentions.

What Good Is A Reputation Not Put To Good Use.

No Problem Can Be Solved From The Same Level Of Consciousness That Created It.

E Idea Of A Personal God Is Quite Alien To Me And Seems Even Naive. However, I Am Also Not A "freethinker" In The Usual Sense Of The Word Because I Find That This Is In The Main An Attitude Nourished Exclusively By An Opposition Against Naive Superstition. My Feeling Is Insofar Religious As I Am Imbued With The Consciousness Of The Insuffiency Of The Human Mind To Understand Deeply The Harmony Of The Universe Which We Try To Formulate As "laws Of Nature." It Is This Consciousness And Humility I Miss In The Freethinker Mentality. Sincerely Yours, Albert Einstein.

Great Spirits Have Always Found Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds. The Latter Cannot Understand It When A Man Does Not Thoughtlessly Submit To Hereditary Prejudices But Honestly And Courageously Uses His Intelligence.

What Is This Frog And Mouse Battle Among The Mathematicians?

This Is Too Difficult For A Mathematician. It Takes A Philosopher. The Hardest Thing In The World To Understand Is The Income Tax.

Common Sense Needs Constant Reappraisal.

When The Nazis Came To Power, I Looked To The Universities That Prided Themselves Upon Their Intellectual Freedom, And They Failed Me. I Looked To The German Press, Which Prided Itself On The Freedom Of The Press, And It Failed Me. Until At Last The Churches Stood Alone, And That For Which I Once Had Little Regard Earned My Respect.

Everybody Is A Genius. But If You Judge A Fish By Its Ability To Climb A Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing That It Is Stupid.

It Is My Belief That The Problem Of Bringing Peace To The World On A Supranational Basis Will Be Solved Only By Employing Gandhi's Method On A Larger Scale.

This Change In The Conception Of Reality Is The Most Profound And The Most Fruitful That Physics Has Experienced Since The Time Of Newton. Refering To James Clerk Maxwell's Contributions To Physics.

The Strength Of The Constitution Lies Entirely In The Determination Of Each Citizen To Defend It. Only If Every Single Citizen Feels Duty Bound To Do His Share In This Defense Are The Constitutional Rights Secure.

I Am Also Convinced That One Gains The Purest Joy From Spirited Things Only When They Are Not Tied In With Earning One's Livelihood.

The Majority Of The Stupid Is Invincible And Guaranteed For All Time. The Terror Of Their Tyranny, However, Is Alleviated By Their Lack Of Consistency.

No Amount Of Experimentation Can Ever Prove Me Right; A Single Experiment Can Prove Me Wrong.

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Life Isn't Worth Living, Unless It Is Lived For Someone Else.

God Is Subtle But He Is Not Malicious.

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.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work Is The] Most Profound And The Most Fruitful.

Even A Fool Is Wise After An Event.

A Country Cannot Simultaneously Prepare And Prevent War.

God Is A Scientist, Not A Magician.

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Infinite Striving To Be The Best Is Man's Duty; It Is Its Own Reward. Everything Else Is In God's Hands. It's Not That I'm So Smart, It's Just That I Stay With Problems Longer.

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Please Explain The Problem To Me Slowly, As I Do Not Understand Things Quickly.

Creativity Is The Residue Of Time Wasted.

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A Theory Is The More Impressive The Greater The Simplicity Of Its Premises Is, The More Different Kinds Of Things It Relates, And The More Extended Its Area Of Applicability.

If One Holds These High Principles Clearly Before One's Eyes, And Compares Them With The Life And Spirit Of Our Times, Then It Appears Glaringly That Civilized Mankind Finds Itself At Present In Grave Danger. In The Totalitarian States It Is The Rulers Themselves Who Strive Actually To Destroy That Spirit Of Humanity. In Less Threatened Parts It Is Nationalism And Intolerance, As Well As The Oppression Of The Individuals By Economic Means, Which Threaten To Choke These Most Precious Traditions.

Morality Is Of The Highest Importance - But For Us, Not For God.

Subtle Is The Lord. Malicious, He Is Not.

If Most Of Us Are Ashamed Of Shabby Clothes And Shoddy Furniture Let Us Be More Ashamed Of Shabby Ideas And Shoddy Philosophies.

True Religion Is Real Living; Living With All One's Soul, With All One's Goodness And Righteousness.

Do Things Sound Better In Your Head Before You Say Them, Or Do You Even Run Them Through There First?

Mere Unbelief In A Personal God Is No Philosophy At All.

Galileo Had Already Made A Significant Beginning Toward A Knowledge Of The Law Of Motion. He Discovered The Law Of Inertia And The Law Of Bodies Falling Freely In The Gravitational Field Of The Earth.

I Cannot Conceive Of A Personal God Who Would Directly Influence The Actions Of Individuals, Or Would Directly Sit In Judgment On Creatures Of His Own Creation.

I Believe In Intuition And Inspiration. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. For Knowledge Is Limited, Whereas Imagination Embraces The Entire World, Stimulating Progress, Giving Birth To Evolution. It Is, Strictly Speaking, A Real Factor In Scientific Research.

Most Of The Fundamental Ideas Of Science Are Essentially Simple, And May, As A Rule, Be Expressed In A Language Comprehensible To Everyone.

A True Genius Admits That He/she Knows Nothing.

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.

The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious. It Is The Source Of All True Art And Science.

What The Individual Can Do Is To Give A Fine Example, And To Have The Courage To Uphold Ethical Values .. In A Society Of Cynics.

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As Our Circle Of Knowledge Expands, So Does The Circumference Of Darkness Surrounding It.

A New Idea Comes Suddenly And In A Rather Intuitive Way, But Intuition Is Nothing But The Outcome Of Earlier Intellectual Experience.

The Only Thing We Can Be Certain Of In This Life Is That We Can Be Certain Of Nothing.

A Great Thought Begins By Seeing Something Differently, With A Shift Of The Mind's Eye.

The History Of Scientific And Technical Discovery Teaches Us That The Human Race Is Poor In Independent And Creative Imagination.

I Fully Agree With You About The Significance And Educational Value Of As Well As History And Philosophy Of Science. So Many People Today - And Even Professional - Seem To Me Like Someone Who Has Seen Thousands Of Trees But Has Never Seen A Forest. A Knowledge Of The Historic And Philosophical Background Gives That Kind Of Independence From Prejudices Of His Generation From Which Most Scientists Are Suffering. This Independence Created By Philosophical Insight Is - In My Opinion - The Mark Of Distinction Between A Mere Artisan Or Specialist And A Real Seeker After Truth.

What A Person Thinks On His Own Without Being Stimulated By The Thoughts And Experiences Of The Other People Is Even In The Best Case Rather Paltry And Monotonous.

Gravitation Cannot Be Held Responsible For People Falling In Love. How On Earth Can You Explain In Terms Of Chemistry And Physics So Important A Biological Phenomenon As First Love? Put Your Hand On A Stove For A Minute And It Seems Like An Hour. Sit With That Special Girl For An Hour And It Seems Like A Minute. That's Relativity.

If I Were To Start Taking Care Of My Grooming, I Would No Longer Be My Own Self... So The Hell With It... I Will Continue To Be Unconcerned About It, Which Surely Has The Advantage That I'm Left In Peace By Many A Fop Who Would Otherwise Come To See Me.

We Cannot Despair About Mankind Knowing That Mozart Was A Man.

Blind Belief In Authority Is The Greatest Enemy Of Truth.

The Field Is The Sole Influence Of The Particle.

Mind Your Own Business

You Can't Blame Gravity For Falling In Love.

Non-cooperation In Military Matters Should Be An Essential Moral Principle For All True Scientists.

Combinatory Play Seems To Be The Essential Feature In Productive Thought.

I Want To Know What God Thinks. The Rest Are Details.

Work Is The Only Thing I Do To Escape The Corruption Of Praise.

The Religious Geniuses Of All Ages Have Been Distinguished By This Kind Of Religious Feeling, Which Knows No Dogma And No God Conceived In Man's Image; So That There Can Be No Church Whose Central Teachings Are Based On It. Hence It Is Precisely Among The Heretics Of Every Age That We Find Men Who Were Filled With This Highest Kind Of Religious Feeling And Were In Many Cases Regarded By Their Contemporaries As Atheists, Sometimes Also As Saints. Looked At In This Light, Men Like Democritus, Francis Of Assisi, And Spinoza Are Closely Akin To One Another.

Intelligent Life On Other Planets? I'm Not Even Sure There Is On Earth!

I Think And Think For Months And Years. Ninety-nine Times, The Conclusion Is False. The Hundredth Time I Am Right.

If I Can't Picture It, I Can't Understand It.

If You Want Your Children To Be Smart, Tell Them Stories. If You Want Them To Be Really Smart, Tell Them More Stories. If You Want Your Children To Be Brilliant, Tell Them Even More Stories.

In Talking About Human Rights Today, We Are Referring Primarily To The Following Demands: Protection Of The Individual Against Arbitrary Infringement By Other Individuals Or By The Government; The Right To Work And To Adequate Earnings From Work; Freedom Of Discussion And Teaching; Adequate Participation Of The Individual In The Formation Of His Government. These Human Rights Are Nowadays Recognised Theoretically, Although, By Abundant Use Of Formalistic, Legal Manoeuvres, They Are Being Violated To A Much Greater Extent Than Even A Generation Ago.

Had I Known That The Germans Would Not Succeed In Producing An Atomic Bomb, I Would Not Have Lifted A Finger.

In The Midst Of Difficulty Lies Opportunity.

To Have A Better Life We Must Keep Choosing How We Are Living.

I Have Made The Bhagwad Gita As The Main Source Of My Inspiration And Guide For The Purpose Of Scientific Investigations And Formation Of My Theories.

The World Will Not Be Destroyed By Those Who Do Evil, But By Those Who Watch Them Without Doing Anything.

I Was Sitting In A Chair In The Patent Office At Bern When All Of A Sudden A Thought Occurred To Me: "if A Person Falls Freely He Will Not Feel His Own Weight." I Was Startled. This Simple Thought Made A Deep Impression On Me. It Impelled Me Toward A Theory Of Gravitation.

It Is My Inner Conviction That The Development Of Science Seeks In The Main To Satisfy The Longing For Pure Knowledge.

Knowledge Is Power

It Is Also A Natural Thing For A Serious Young Man That He Should Form For Himself As Precise An Idea As Possible Of The Goal Of His Desires.

The Greatest Scientists Are Artists As Well.

While You're Trying To Get Ahead, Remember To Get Aheart As Well. When Your Only Problem Is A Nail, All You Want Is A Decent Hammer. 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.

Never Regard Study As A Duty, But As The Enviable Opportunity To Learn

Opportunities To Learn

If You Are Out To Describe The Truth, Leave Elegance To The Tailor. On Being Reproached That His Formula Of Gravitation Was Longer And More Cumbersome Than Newton's.

Your Fervent Wishes Can Only Find Fulfillment If You Succeed In Attaining Love And Understanding Of Men, And Animals, And Plants, And Stars, So That Every Joy Becomes Your Joy And Every Pain Your Pain.

Never Underestimate Your Own Ignorance.

I Should Much Rather See A Reasonable Agreement With Arabs Based Upon Living Together Than The Creation Of A Jewish State.

Imagination Is More Valuable Than Information.

One May Say The Eternal Mystery Of The World Is Its Comprehensibility.

All Conditions And All Circumstances In Our Lives Are A Result Of A Certain Level Of Thinking. If We Want To Change The Conditions And Circumstances, We Have To Change The Level Of Thinking That Is Responsible For It.

There Could Be No Greater Calamity Than A Permanent Discord Between Us And The Arab People. Despite The Great Wrong That Has Been Done Us, We Must Strive For A Just And Lasting Compromise With The Arab People Let Us Recall That In Former Times No People Lived In Greater Friendship With Us Than The Ancestors Of These Arabs.

Everyone Must Become Their Own Person, However Frightful That May Be.

Adversity Introduces A Man To Himself.

I Believe In Intuition And Inspiration...at Times I Feel Certain I Am Right While Not Knowing The Reason.

Anyone Can Repeat A Technical Explanation They Read In A Text-book Or Blog Post.

Nature Conceals Her Secrets Because She Is Sublime, Not Because She Is A Trickster.

Make A Lot Of Walks To Get Healthy And Don't Read That Much But Save Yourself Some Until You're Grown Up.

I Am Convinced That Some Political And Social Activities And Practices Of The Catholic Organizations Are Detrimental And Even Dangerous For The Community As A Whole, Here And Everywhere. I Mention Here Only The Fight Against Birth Control At A Time When Overpopulation In Various Countries Has Become A Serious Threat To The Health Of People And A Grave Obstacle To Any Attempt To Organize Peace On This Planet.

No One Does Anything Right In Life, Until They Realize That They Are Making A Mistake

Making Mistakes

Everyone Knew It Was Impossible, Until A Fool Who Didn't Know Came Along And Did It.

This Topic Brings Me To That Worst Outcrop Of Herd Life, The Military System, Which I Abhor... This Plague-spot Of Civilization Ought To Be Abolished With All Possible Speed. Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism -- How Passionately I Hate Them!

Remember Today, For It Is The Beginning Of Always. Today Marks The Start Of A Brave New Future Filled With All Your Dreams Can Hold. Think Truly To The Future And Make Those Dreams Come True.

One Cannot Help But Be In Awe When [one] Contemplates The Mysteries Of Eternity, Of Life, Of The Marvelous Structure Of Reality.

So Long As There Are Men, There Will Be Wars.

Man Has An Intense Desire For Assured Knowledge.

I Have Made No Secret, Either Privately Or Publicly, Of Any Sense Of Outrage Over Officially Enforced Military And War Service. I Regard It As A Duty Of Conscience To Fight Against Such Barbarous Enslavement Of The Individual With Every Means Available.

The Illusion That We Are Separate From One Another Is An Optical Delusion Of Our Consciousness.

For Any One Who Is Pervaded With The Sense Of Causal Law In All That Happens, Who Accepts In Real Earnest The Assumption Of Causality, The Idea Of A Being Who Interferes With The Sequence Of Events In The World Is Absolutely Impossible. Neither The Religion Of Fear Nor The Social-moral Religion Can Have Any Hold On Him.

Many Of The Things You Can Count, Don't Count. Many Of The Things You Can't Count, Really Count.

Einstein Was Attending A Music Salon In Germany Before The Second World War, With The Violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese Women Played A German Piece Of Music And A Woman In The Audience Exclaimed: "how Wonderful! It Sounds So German!" Einstein Responded: "madam, People Are All The Same."

If My Theory Of Relativity Is Proven Successful, Germany Will Claim Me As A German And France Will Declare Me 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.

The High Destiny Of The Individual Is To Serve Rather Than To Rule.

It Is Not So Important Where One Settles Down. The Best Thing Is To Follow Your Instincts Without Too Much Reflection.

I Live My Daydreams In Music I See My Life In Terms Of Music. I Get Most Joy In Life Out Of Music.

Watch The Stars, And From Them Learn.

The Most Precious Things In Life Are Not Those You Get For Money.

Precious Things

Compounding Is The 8th Wonder Of The World.

Wonder Of The World

It May Affront The Military-minded Person To Suggest A Regime That Does Not Maintain Any Military Secrets.

There Lies The Weaknesss Of Positivists And Professional Atheists Who Are Elated Because They Feel That They Have Not Only Successfully Rid The World Of Gods But "bared The Miracles." (that Is, Explained The Miracles. - Ed.) Oddly Enough, We Must Be Satisfied To Acknowledge The "miracle" Without There Being Any Legitimate Way For Us To Approach It . I Am Forced To Add That Just To Keep You From Thinking That -weakened By Age-i Have Fallen Prey To The Clergy.

A Table, A Chair, A Bowl Of Fruit And A Violin; What Else Does A Man Need To Be Happy.

Mozart's Music Is So Pure And Beautiful That I See It As A Reflection Of The Inner Beauty Of The Universe.

The True Measure Of A Man Is The Degree To Which He Has Managed To Subjugate His Ego.

Realising The Healthy International Relations Can Be Created Only Among Populations Made Up Of Individuals Who Themselves Are Healthy And Enjoy A Measure A Independence, The United Nations Elaborated A Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Which Was Adopted By The U.n. General Assembly On December 10, 1948.

Falling In Love Is Not At All The Most Stupid Thing That People Do - But Gravitation Cannot Be Held Responsible For It.

Out Of Clutter, Find Simplicity.

Innovation Is Not The Product Of Logical Thought, Even Though The Final Product Is Tied To A Logical Structure.

It Gives Me Great Pleasure Indeed To See The Stubbornness Of An Incorrigible Nonconformist Warmly Acclaimed.

I Make It A Rule Not To Clutter My Mind With Simple Information That I Can Find In A Book In Five Minutes.

Brief Is This Existence, As A Visit In A Strange House. The Path To Be Pursued Is Poorly Lit By A Flickering Consciousness.

Artificial Intellegance Is No Match For Natural Stupidity

In My Opinion There Is No Other Salvation For Civilization And Even For The Human Race Than The Creation Of A World Government With Security On The Basis Of Law. As Long As There Are Sovereign States With Their Separate Armaments And Armament Secrets, New World Wars Cannot Be Avoided.

World Government

Memory Is Deceptive Because It Is Colored By Today's Events.

The Physicist's Greatest Tool Is His Wastebasket.

Time And Space Are Not Conditions Of Existence, Time And Space Is A Model For Thinking

The Same Thinking That Has Led You To Where You Are Is Not Going To Lead You To Where You Want To Go.

Only Morality In Our Actions Can Give Beauty And Dignity To Life.

Ethics And Morals

Most People Go On Living Their Everyday Life: Half-frightened, Half Indifferent, They Behold The Ghostly Tragic-comedy That Is Being Performed On The International Stage Before The Eyes And Ears Of The World.

The Facts, Although Interesting, Are Irrelevant.

When The Special Theory Of Relativity Began To Germinate In Me, I Was Visited By All Sorts Of Nervous Conflicts... I Used To Go Away For Weeks In A State Of Confusion.

The Next World War Will Be Fought With Stones.

There Is Nothing Divine About Morality; It Is A Purely Human Affair. If People Are Good Only Because They Fear Punishment, And Hope For Reward, Then We Are A Sorry Lot Indeed. What The Individual Can Do Is To Give A Fine Example, And To Have The Courage To Uphold Ethical Values .. In A Society Of Cynics.

There Exists A Passion For Comprehension, Just As There Exists A Passion For Music. That Passion Is Rather Common In Children, But Gets Lost In Most People Later On. Without This Passion There Would Be Neither Mathematics Nor Natural Science.

Hail To The Man Who Went Through Life Always Helping Others, Knowing No Fear, And To Whom Aggressiveness And Resentment Are Alien. Such Is The Stuff Of Which The Great Moral Leaders Are Made.

Life Is A Great Tapestry. The Individual Is Only An Insignificant Thread In An Immense And Miraculous Pattern.

One Should Guard Against Preaching To Young People Success In The Customary Form As The Main Aim In Life. The Most Important Motive For Work In School And In Life Is Pleasure In Work, Pleasure In Its Result, And The Knowledge Of The Value Of The Result To The Community.

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Laws Alone Can Not Secure Freedom Of Expression; In Order That Every Man Present His Views Without Penalty There Must Be Spirit Of Tolerance In The Entire Population.

Humiliation And Mental Oppression By Ignorant And Selfish Teachers Wreak Havoc In The Youthful Mind That Can Never Be Undone And Often Exert A Baleful Influence In Later Life.

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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.

If I Would Follow Your Advice And Jesus Could Perceive It, He, As A Jewish Teacher, Surely Would Not Approve Of Such Behavior.

Out Yonder There Is This Huge World, Which Exists Independently Of Us Human Beings And Which Stands Before Us Like A Great, Eternal Riddle, At Least Partially Accessible To Our Inspection And Thinking

...intelligence And Character Of The Masses Are Incomparably Lower Than The Intelligence And Character Of The Few Who Produce Something Valuable For The Community.

I Do Not Like To State An Opinion On A Matter Unless I Know The Precise Facts.

Our Lives Will Be Measured By What We Do For Others

Feeling And Longing Are The Motive Forces Behind All Human Endeavor And Human Creations.

All That's Different About Me Is That I Still Ask The Questions Most People Stopped Asking At Age Five.

America Is Today The Hope Of All Honorable Men Who Respect The Rights Of Their Fellow Men And Who Believe In The Principle Of Freedom And Justice.

Although I Am A Typical Loner In My Daily Life, My Awareness Of Belonging To The Invisible Community Of Those Who Strive For Truth, Beauty, And Justice Has Prevented Me From Feelings Of Isolation.

A Human Being Is A Part Of The Whole Called By Us Universe; A Part Limited In Time And Space. He Experiences Himself, His Thoughts, And His Feelings As Something Separate From The Rest - A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of Consciousness.

The Foundation Of Morality Should Not Be Made Dependent On Myth Nor Tied To Any Authority Lest Doubt About The Myth Or About The Legitimacy Of The Authority Imperil The Foundation Of Sound Judgment And Action.

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