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As For The Search For Truth, I Know From My Own Painful Searching, With Its Many Blind Alleys, How Hard It Is To Take A Reliable Step, Be It Ever So Small, Towards The Understanding Of That Which Is Truly Significant.

-Albert Einstein

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As For The Search

Albert Einstein

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As For The Search For Truth, I Know From My Own Painful Searching, With Its Many Blind Alleys, How Hard It Is To Take A Reliable Step, Be It Ever So Small, Towards The Understanding Of That Which Is Truly Significant.

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In Order To Be An Immaculate Member Of A Flock Of Sheep, One Must Above All Be A Sheep Oneself.

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Strange Is Our Situation Here Upon Earth.

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The Contemplation Of This World Beckoned Like A Liberation

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A Model Should Be As Simple As It Can Be But No Simpler

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

God Doesn't; Shoot Crap With The Universe.your Innermost Thoughts Are Beliefs That Unfold As Your Universe.

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We Cannot Despair Of Humanity, Since We Ourselves Are Human Beings.

We Are Here For The Sake Of Others

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Joy In Looking And Comprehending Is Nature's Most Beautiful Gift.

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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.

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 And Gaining New And Wider Views.

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From The Viewpoint Of A Jesuit Priest I Am, Of Course, And Have Always Been An Atheist.

If There Is A God

The State Exists For Man, Not Man For The State. The Same May Be Said Of Science. These Are Old Phrases, Coined By People Who Saw In Human Individuality The Highest Human Value. I Would Hesitate To Repeat Them, Were It Not For The Ever Recurring Danger That They May Be Forgotten, Especially In These Days Of Organization And Stereotypes.

I Must Be Willing To Give Up What I Am In Order To Become What I Will Be.

I Never Failed In Mathematics. Before I Was Fifteen I Had Mastered Differential And Integral Calculus.

Nothing Happens Until Something Moves. When Something Vibrates, The Electrons Of The Entire Universe Resonate With It. Everything Is Connected.

The Supreme Task Of The Physicist Is To Arrive At Those Universal Elementary Laws From Which The Cosmos Can Be Built Up By Pure Deduction. There Is No Logical Path To These Laws; Only Intuition, Resting On Sympathetic Understanding Of Experience, Can Reach Them.

Never Lose A Holy Curiosity.

If You Want To Make Your Children Brilliant, Tell Them Fairy Tales. If You Want To Make Them More Brilliant, Tell Them More Fairy Tales.

Hope That Justice Will Be Done To Those Brave Men Who Stood Up For Their Convictions.

It Is Both Auspicious And Peaceful For People To Choose Vegetarinism.

Everything Has Changed Except The Way Man Thinks (when The Hydrogen Bomb Was Exploded)

The World Is An Evil Place To Live In. Not For Those Who Do Evil, But For Those Who Sit Back And Allow Evil To Occur.

[there Is] A Duty In Refusing To Cooperate In Any Undertaking That Violates The Constitutional Rights Of The Individual. This Holds In Particular For All Inquisitions That Are Concerned With The Private Life And The Political Affiliations Of The Citizens.

The True Value Of A Human Being Can Be Found In The Degree To Which He Has Attained Liberation From The Self.

We Experience Ourselves Our Thoughts And Feelings As Something Separate From The Rest. A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of 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.

Concerning Matter, We Have Been All Wrong. What We Have Called Matter Is Energy, Whose Vibration Has Been So Lowered As To Be Perceptible To The Senses. There Is No Matter.

If I Were Not A Jew I Would Be A Quaker.

Even If Only 2 Percent Of Those Assigned To Perform Military Service Should Announce Their Refusal To Fight, Governments Would Be Powerless, They Would Not Dare Send Such A Large Number Of People To Jail.

To Be Sure, The Doctrine Of A Personal God Interfering With Natural Events Could Never Be Refuted, In The Real Sense, By Science, For This Doctrine Can Always Take Refuge In Those Domains In Which Scientific Knowledge Has Not Yet Been Able To Set Foot.

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.

It Is Only To The Individual That A Soul Is Given.

Freedom Of Teaching And Of Opinion In Book Or Press Is The Foundation For The Sound And Natural Development Of Any People.

The Only Justifiable Purpose Of Political Institutions Is To Ensure The Unhindered Development Of The Individual.

My Mind Is My Laboratory.

If I Had 20 Days To Solve A Problem, I Would Take 19 Days To Define It

The Thing Is, Not To Stop Questioning.

Knowledge And Ego Are Directly Related. The Less Knowledge, The Greater The Ego

Though Our Conduct Seems So Very Different From That Of The Higher Animals, The Primary Instincts Are Much Alike In Them And In Us.

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Science Is A Wonderful Thing If One Does Not Have To Earn One's Living At It.

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