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A Woman Is Always Right. But Sometimes Confused Or May Be Misinformed Or Rude Or Stubborn Or Senseless Or Unchangeable About Her Opinions Or Even Down Right Stupid At Times But Never Wrong... She Is Always Right.

-Albert Einstein

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A Woman Is Always

Albert Einstein

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A Woman Is Always Right. But Sometimes Confused Or May Be Misinformed Or Rude Or Stubborn Or Senseless Or Unchangeable About Her Opinions Or Even Down Right Stupid At Times But Never Wrong... She Is Always Right.

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It Is Harder To Crack Prejudice Than An Atom.

Dancers Are The Athletes Of God.

I Cannot Imagine A God Who Rewards And Punishes The Objects Of His Creation And Is But A Reflection Of Human Frailty.

Your Ancestors Dragged These Black People From Their Homes By Force; And In The White Man's Quest For Wealth And An Easy Life They Have Been Ruthlessly Suppressed And Exploited, Degraded Into Slavery. The Modern Prejudice Against Negroes Is The Result Of The Desire To Maintain This Unworthy Condition.

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 Cannot Do This In Spite Of The Fact That Mechanistic Causality Has, To A Certain Extent, Been Placed In Doubt By Modern Science. My Religiosity Consists In A Humble Admiration Of The Infinitely Superior Spirit That Reveals Itself In The Little That We, With Our Weak And Transitory Understanding, Can Comprehend Of Reality. Morality Is Of The Highest Importance - But For Us, Not For God.

Genius Is 1% Talent And 99% Percent Hard Work.

God Gave Me The Stubbornness Of A Mule And A Fairly Keen Scent.

Problems Cannot Be Solved By Thinking Within The Framework In Which The Problems Were Created.

Since I Do Not Forsee That Atomic Energy Is To Be A Great Boon For A Long Time, I Have To Say That For The Present It Is A Menace. Perhaps It Is Well That It Should Be. It May Intimidate The Human Race Into Bringing Order Into Its International Affairs, Which, Without The Presence Of Fear, It Would Not Do.

One Of The Strongest Motives That Lead Men To Art And Science Is Escape From Everyday Life With Its Painful Crudity And Hopeless Dreariness, From The Fetters Of One's Own Ever-shifting Desires. A Finely Tempered Nature Longs To Escape From The Personal Life Into The World Of Objective Perception And Thought.

Human Beings Are Not Condemned, Because Of Their Biological Constitution, To Annihilate Each Other Or To Be At The Mercy Of A Cruel, Self-inflicted Fate.

So I Am Living Without Fats, Without Meat, Without Fish, But Am Feeling Quite Well This Way. It Always Seems To Me That Man Was Not Born To Be A Carnivore.

I Hate Crowds And Making Speeches. I Hate Facing Cameras And Having To Answer To A Crossfire Of Questions. Why Popular Fancy Should Seize Upon Me, A Scientist, Dealing In Abstract Things And Happy If Left Alone, Is A Manifestation Of Mass Psychology That Is Beyond Me.

Fortunate Newton, Happy Childhood Of Science. Nature To Him Was An Open Book. He Stands Before Us Strong, Certain, And Alone.

Each Ray Of Light Moves In The Coordinate System 'at Rest' With The Definite, Constant Velocity V Independent Of Whether This Ray Of Light Is Emitted By A Body At Rest Or A Body In Motion.

No Matter How We May Single Out A Complex From Nature...its Theoretical Treatment Will Never Prove To Be Ultimately Conclusive... I Believe That This Process Of Deepening Of Theory Has No Limits.

Scientific Greatness Is Less A Matter Of Intelligence Than Character; If The Scientist Refuses To Compromise Or Accept Incomplete Answers And Persists In Grappling The Most Basic And Difficult Questions.

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Physical Concepts Are Free Creations Of The Human Mind, And Are Not, However It May Seem, Uniquely Determined By The External World.

Learning Is The Beginning Of Wealth. Searching And Learning Is Where The Miracle Process All Begins. The Great Breakthrough In Your Life Comes When You Realize It That You Can Learn Anything You Need To Learn To Accomplish Any Goal That You Set For Yourself. This Means There Are No Limits On What You Can Be, Have Or Do.

You Can Never Solve A Problem On The Level On Which It Was Created.

It Is A Miracle That Curiosity Survives Formal Education.

The Most Practical Solution Is A Good Theory.

It Is My Conviction That Killing Under The Cloak Of War Is Nothing But An Act Of Murder.

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Intellectuals Solve Problems, Geniuses Prevent Them.

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.

The Human Mind Has First To Construct Forms, Independently, Before We Can Find Them In Things.

Unless The Cause Of Peace Based On Law Gathers Behind It The Force And Zeal Of A Religion, It Hardly Can Hope To Succeed.

When Forced To Summarize The General Theory Of Relativity In One Sentence: Time And Space And Gravitation Have No Separate Existence From Matter.

Nothing Happens Til Something Moves.

If You Want Your Children To Be Intelligent, Read Them Fairy Tales. If You Want Them To Be More Intelligent, Read Them More Fairy Tales.

The World We Have Made As A Result Of The Level Of Thinking We Have Done Thus Far Creates Problems That We Cannot Solve At The Same Level At Which We Have Created Them.... We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Humankind Is To Survive.

When We Are Working At Something, We Come Down From Our High Logical Horse And Sniff Around With Our Nose To The Ground. Then We Obliterate Our Traces In Order To Become More God-like.

In The Past It Never Occurred To Me That Every Casual Remark Of Mine Would Be Snatched Up And Recorded. Otherwise I Would Have Crept Further Into My Shell.

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.

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

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If People Would Only Talk About What They Understood, Earth Would Be A Very Quiet Place.

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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.

The World Is So Full Of Possibilities That Dogmatism Is Simply Indecent.

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One Scientific Epoch Ended And Another Began With James Clerk Maxwell.

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I Have Never Obtained Any Ethical Values From My Scientific Work.

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

The World We Have Created Is A Product Of Our Thinking.

The Significant Problems We Have Cannot Be Solved At The Same Level Of Thinking With Which We Created Them.

The Only Thing That You Absolutely Have To Know, Is The Location Of The Library.

Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds.

It Has Become Appallingly Obvious That Our Technology Has Exceeded Our Humanity.

I Have Yet To Meet A Single Person From Our Culture, No Matter What His Or Her Educational Background, Iq, And Specific Training, Who Had Powerful Transpersonal Experiences And Continues To Subscribe To The Materialistic Monism Of Western Science.

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.

I Believe That Whatever We Do Or Live For Has Its Causality; It Is Good, However, That We Cannot See Through To It.

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

Anyone Who Doesn't Take Truth Seriously In Small Matters Cannot Be Trusted In Large Ones Either.

It Is An Outcome Of Faith That Nature-as She Is Perceptible To Our Five Senses-takes The Character Of Such A Well Formulated Puzzle.

The Value Of A Man Should Be Seen In What He Gives And Not In What He Is Able To Receive.

A Bartender Is Just A Pharmacist With A Limited Inventory.

What Is The Meaning Of Human Life, Or Of Organic Life Altogether? To Answer This Question At All Implies A Religion.

The Splitting Of The Atom Has Changed Everything Except For How We Think.

The Word God Is For Me Nothing More Than The Expression And Product Of Human Weaknesses.

For Me The Jewish Religion Like All Other Religions Is An Incarnation Of The Most Childish Superstitions.

I Am Enough Of An Artist To Draw Freely Upon My Imagination.

The Best Design Is The Simplest One That Works.

My Relationship To The Jewish People Has Become My Strongest Human Bond, Ever Since I Became Fully Aware Of Our Precarious Situation Among The Nations Of The World.

[asked About A Book In Which 100 Nazi Professors Charged Him With Scientific Error.] Were I Wrong, One Professor Would Have Been Quite Enough.

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The World Will Not Evolve Past Its Current State Of Crisis By Using The Same Thinking That Created The Situation.

You Teach Me Baseball And I'll Teach You Relativity...no We Must Not. You Will Learn About Relativity Faster Than I Learn Baseball.

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

I Want To Go When I Want. It Is Tasteless To Prolong Life Artificially. I Have Done My Share, It Is Time To Go. I Will Do It Elegantly.

True Art Is Characterized By An Irresistible Urge In The Creative Artist.

All The Fifty Years Of Conscious Brooding Have Brought Me No Closer To Answer The Question, "what Are Light Quanta?" Of Course Today Every Rascal Thinks He Knows The Answer, But He Is Deluding Himself.

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.

Congratulations

I Am Of The Opinion That All The Finer Speculations In The Realm Of Science Spring From A Deep Religious Feeling, And That Without Such Feeling They Would Not Be Fruitful.

To Be Sure, It Is Not The Fruits Of Scientific Research That Elevate A Man And Enrich His Nature, But The Urge To Understand, The Intellectual Work, Creative Or Receptive.

I Have Come To Know The Mutability Of All Human Relationships And Have Learned To Insulate Myself Against Both Heat And Cold So That A Temperature Balance Is Fairly Well Assured.

If This Being Is Omnipotent, Then Every Occurrence, Including Every Human Action, Every Human Thought, And Every Human Feeling And Aspiration Is Also His Work; How Is It Possible To Think Of Holding Men Responsible For Their Deeds And Thoughts Before Such An Almighty Being? In Giving Out Punishment And Rewards He Would To A Certain Extent Be Passing Judgment On Himself. How Can This Be Combined With The Goodness And Righteousness Ascribed To Him?

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.

All Men Are Ignorant, Just In Different Fields.

To Get To Know A Country, You Must Have Direct Contact With The Earth. It's Futile To Gaze At The World Through A Car Window.

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

The Revolution Introduced Me To Art, And In Turn, Art Introduced Me To The Revolution!

Gradually The Conviction Gained Recognition That All Knowledge About Things Is Exclusively A Working-over Of The Raw Material Furnished By The Senses. ... Galileo And Hume First Upheld This Principle With Full Clarity And Decisiveness.

If A Man Aspires Towards A Righteous Life, His First Act Of Abstinence Is From Injury To Animals.

Women Marry Men Hoping They Will Change. Men Marry Women Hoping They Will Not.

A Conviction Akin To Religious Feeling Of The Rationality Or Intelligibility Of The World Lies Behind All Scientific Work Of A High Order.

Experts Are Just Trained Dogs.

On Quantum Theory I Use Up More Brain Grease (rough Translation Of German Idiom) Than On Relativity.

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

I Know Not With What Weapons World War Iii Will Be Fought, But World War Iv Will Be Fought With Sticks And Stones.

Coincidences Are God's Way Of Staying Anonymous.

The Special Theory Of Relativity Owes Its Origins To Maxwell's Equations Of The Electromagnetic Field.

For The Most Part, I Do The Thing Which My Own Nature Prompts Me To Do. It Is Embarrassing To Earn So Much Respect And Love For It.

Love And Respect

The Field Is The Sole Influence Of The Particle.

Mind Your Own Business

I Always Have A High Regard For The Individual And Have An Insuperable Distaste For Violence And Clubmanship. All These Motives Made Me Into A Passionate Pacifist And Anti-militarist. I Am Against Any Nationalism, Even In The Guise Of Mere Patriotism. Privileges Based On Position And Property Have Always Seemed To Me Unjust And Pernicious, As Did Any Exaggerated Personality Cult.

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.

The Man With The Greatest Soul Will Always Face The Greatest War With The Low Minded Person.

Smoke Like A Chimney, Work Like A Horse, Eat Without Thinking, Go For A Walk Only In Really Pleasant Company.

Common Sense Is Nothing More Than A Deposit Of Prejudices Laid Down By The Mind Before You Reach Eighteen.

The More I Learn, The More I Realize I Don't Know.

I See A Pattern, But My Imagination Cannot Picture The Maker Of That Pattern. I See A Clock, But I Cannot Envision The Clockmaker. The Human Mind Is Unable To Conceive Of The Four Dimensions, So How Can It Conceive Of A God, Before Whom A Thousand Years And A Thousand Dimensions Are As One?

... We Will Hope That Future Historians Will Explain The Morbid Symptoms Of Present-day Society As The Childhood Ailments Of An Aspiring Humanity, Due Entirely To The Excessive Speed At Which Civilization Was Advancing.

The Future Is Not A Gift-it Is An Achievement.

My Primary Process Of Perceiving Is Muscular And Visual.

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

When The Solution Is Simple, God Is Answering.

Growth Comes Through Analogy; Through Seeing How Things Connect, Rather Than Only Seeing How They Might Be Different.

Insofar As We May At All Claim That Slavery Has Been Abolished Today, We Owe Its Abolition To The Practical Consequences Of Science

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

War Seems To Me To Be A Mean, Contemptible Thing: I Would Rather Be Hacked In Pieces Than Take Part In Such An Abominable Business. And Yet So High, In Spite Of Everything, Is My Opinion Of The Human Race That I Believe This Bogey Would Have Disappeared Long Ago, Had The Sound Sense Of The Nations Not Been Systematically Corrupted By Commercial And Political Interests Acting Through The Schools And The Press

A Forced Faithfulness Is A Bitter Fruit For All Concerned.

The More A Man Is Imbued With The Ordered Regularity Of All Events The Firmer Becomes His Conviction That There Is No Room Left By The Side Of This Ordered Regularity For Causes Of A Different Nature. For Him Neither The Rule Of Human Nor The Rule Of Divine Will Exist As An Independent Cause Of Natural Events.

The Finest Emotion Of Which We Are Capable Is The Mystic Emotion. Herein Lies The Germ Of All Art And All True Science. Anyone To Whom This Feeling Is Alien, Who Is No Longer Capable Of Wonderment And Lives In A State Of Fear Is A Dead Man.

I Know What It's Like To See One's Mother Go Through The Agony Of Death And Be Unable To Help; There Is No Consolation. We All Have To Bear Such Heavy Burdens, For They Are Unalterably Linked To Life.

The Nuremberg Trial Of The German War Criminals Was Tacitly Based On The Recognition Of The Principle: Criminal Actions Cannot Be Excused If Committed On Government Orders; Conscience Supersedes The Authority Of The Law Of The State.

The Jewish Scriptures Admirably Illustrate The Development From The Religion Of Fear To Moral Religion, A Development Continued In The New Testament. The Religions Of All Civilized Peoples, Especially The Peoples Of The Orient, Are Primarily Moral Religions.

Each Possession I Own Is But A Stone Around My Neck.

I Should Much Rather See Reasonable Agreement With The Arabs On The Basis Of Living Together In Peace Than The Creation Of A Jewish State. My Awareness Of The Essential Nature Of Judaism Resists The Idea Of A Jewish State With Borders, An Army, And A Measure Of Temporal Power, No Matter How Modest. I Am Afraid Of The Inner Damage Judaism Will Sustain—especially From The Development Of A Narrow Nationalism Within Our Own Ranks, Against Which We Have Already Had To Fight Strongly, Even Without A Jewish State.

It Is The Supreme Art Of The Teacher To Awaken Joy In Creative Expression And Knowledge.

There Are Times When One Feels Liberated From One’s Limits And Human Imperfections. At Such Moments, We See Ourselves There, In A Little Corner Of Our Little Planet, Our Eyes Fixed In Wonder On The Cold And Yet Deep Beauty Of That Which Is Eternal, That Which Is Elusive. Life And Death Are Fused Together And There Is No Evolution, Nor Destination, There Is Only Being.

Wisdom Is Not A Product Of Schooling But Of The Lifelong Attempt To Acquire It.

Genius Abhors Consensus Because When Consensus Is Reached, Thinking Stops. Stop Nodding Your Head.

Curiosity Has Its Own Reason For Existence.

Every Age Has Its Beautiful Moments.

What Is Significant In One's Own Existence One Is Hardly Aware, And It Certainly Should Not Bother The Other Fellow. What Does A Fish Know About The Water In Which He Swims All His Life?

If A Theory Can Not Be Explained To A Child, Then The Theory Is Probably Worthless.

The Value Of A College Education Is Not The Learning Of Many Facts But The Training Of The Mind To Think

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 Feeling As Something Separated From The Rest, A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of His Consciousness. This Delusion Is A Kind Of Prison For Us, Restricting Us To Our Personal Desires And To Affection For A Few Persons Nearest To Us. Our Task Must Be To Free Ourselves From This Prison By Widening Our Circle Of Compassion To Embrace All Living Creatures And The Whole Of Nature In Its Beauty.

Don't Let Your Brain Interfere With Your Heart.

Is It Not A Terrible Thing To Be Forced By Society To Do Things Which All Of Us As Individuals Regard As Abominable Crimes?

I Know That It Is A Hopeless Undertaking To Debate About Fundamental Value Judgements. For Instance, If Someone Approves, As A Goal, The Extirpation Of The Human Race From The Earth, One Cannot Refute Such A Viewpoint On Rational Grounds. But If There Is Agreement On Certain Goals And Values, One Can Argue Rationally About The Means By Which These Objectives May Be Obtained.

How Can It Be That Mathematics, Being After All A Product Of Human Thought Which Is Independent Of Experience, Is So Admirably Appropriate To The Objects Of Reality?

Time Does Not Exist - We Invented It

Experience Alone Can Decide On Truth.

No Scientist Thinks In Formulae.

Failure Is Only Postponed Success As Long As Courage 'coaches' Ambition.

It Is Impossible To Solve Significant Problems Using The Same Knowledge That Created Them.

People Love Chopping Wood. In This Activity One Immediately Sees Results.

Highly Developed Spirits Often Encounter Resistance From Mediocre Minds.

The Traditional Religions Worry Me. Their Long History Proves That They Have Not Understood The Meaning Of The Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill. If We Want To Save This World From Unimaginable Destruction We Should Concentrate Not On The Faraway God , But On The Heart Of The Individual.

The Hardest Thing To Understand In The World Is The Income Tax.

The Whole Of Science Is Nothing More Than A Refinement Of Everyday Thinking.

As A Human Being, One Has Been Endowed With Just Enough Intelligence To Be Able To See Clearly How Utterly Inadequate That Intelligence Is When Confronted With What Exists.

If You Want To Live A Happy Life, Tie It To A Goal, Not To People Or Objects.

Be Kind To People Who Are Different From You.

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.

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.

Creativity Is One Of Those Hypnotic Words Which Are Prone To Cast A Spell Upon Our Understanding And Dissolve Our Thinking Into Haze.

I Believe That The Horrifying Deterioration In The Ethical Conduct Of People Today Stems From The Mechanization And Dehumanization Of Our Lives. A Disastrous By-product Of The Development Of The Scientific And Technical Mentality. We Are Guilty. Man Grows Cold Faster Than The Planet He Inhabits.

Innovation Is Everyones Responsibility, Not Just R&ds.

People Will Not Disarm Step By Step; They Will Disarm At One Blow Or Not At All.

When Men Are Engaged In War And Conquest, The Tools Of Science Become As Dangerous As A Razor In The Hands Of A Child Of Three. We Must Not Condemn Man Because His Inventiveness And Patient Conquest Of The Forces Of Nature Are Being Exploited For False And Destructive Purposes. Rather, We Should Remember That The Fate Of Mankind Hinges Entirely Upon Man’s Moral Development.

The Environment Is Everything That Isn't Me.

We Must Begin To Inculcate Our Children Against Militarism By Educating Them In The Spirit Of Pacifism. Our Schoolbooks Glorify War And Conceal It's Horror. I Would Teach Peace Rather Than War.

Enough For Me Is The Mystery Of The Eternity Of Life, And The Inkling Of The Marvelous Structure Of Reality. There Is In This Neither A Will Nor A Goal, Nor A Must, But Only Sheer Being.

Eternity Of Life

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.

You Can't Solve Your Problems By Using The Same Thinking That Got You Into Those Problems In The First Place.

Games Are The Most Elevated Form Of Investigation.

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

Conviction Is A Good Motive, But A Bad Judge.

The Only Justification For Our Concepts And Systems Of Concepts Is That They Serve To Represent The Complex Of Our Experiences; Beyond This They Have Not Legitimacy.

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