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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.

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Galileo Had Already Made

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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.

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

Human Beings, Vegetables, Or Cosmic Dust, We All Dance To A Mysterious Tune, Intoned In The Distance By An Invisible Piper.

Man Would Indeeded Be In A Poor Way If He Had To Be Restrained By Fear Of Punishment And Hope Of Reward After Death.

From Discord, Find Harmony.

He Who Has Never Been Deceived By A Lie Does Not Know The Meaning Of Bliss.

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The Sole Function Of Education...[is] 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.

The Scientist Is Activated By A Wonder And Awe Before The Mysterious Comprehensibility Of The Universe Which Is Yet Finally Beyond His Grasp. In Its Profoundest Depths It Is Inaccessible To Man.

The More Success The Quantum Theory Has, The Sillier It Looks

I Used To Go Away For Weeks In A State Of Confusion.

Concepts That Have Proven Useful In Ordering Things Easily Achieve Such Authority Over Us That We Forget Their Earthly Origins And Accept Them As Unalterable Givens.

I Am Satisfied With The Mystery Of The Eternity Of Life.

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If There Is A God

I Have Never Looked Upon Ease And Happiness As Ends In Themselves. This Ethical Basis I Call The Ideal Of The Pigsty.

No Problem Is Ever Solved In The Same Consciousness Thas Was Used To Create It.

Conviction Is A Good Motive, But A Bad Judge.

Knowledge Is Dead; The School, However, Serves The Living.

One Cannot Learn So Well As By Experiencing It Oneself.

I Have No Special Talent. I Am Only Passionately Curious. The Important Thing Is To Not Stop Questioning. Curiousity Has Its Own Reason For Existing.

One Must Shy Away From Questionable Undertakings, Even When They Bear A High-sounding Name.

Science Is A Wonderful Thing If One Does Not Have To Earn One's Living At It. One Should Earn One's Living By Work Of Which One Is Sure One Is Capable. Only When We Do Not Have To Be Accountable To Anybody Can We Find Joy In Scientific Endeavor.

The Highest Principles For Our Aspirations And Judgments Are Given To Us In The Jewish-christian Religious Tradition.

Mere Thinking Cannot Reveal To Us The Highest Purpose.

The Individual Feels The Futility Of Human Desires And Aims And The Sublimity And Marvelous Order Which Reveal Themselves Both In Nature And In The World Of Thought.

Work Is The Only Thing That Gives Substance To Life.

Long Hair Minimizes The Need For Barbers; Socks Can Be Done Without; One Leather Jacket Solves The Coat Problem For Many Years; Suspenders Are Superfluous.

Leather Jackets

The Finest Emotion Of Which We Are Capable Is The Mystic Emotion.

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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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.

As I Look Back Over The Truly Crucial Events In My Life I Realize That They Were Not Planned Long In Advance. Albert Einstein Said, 'there Are Only Two Ways To Live Your Life. One Is As Though Nothing Is A Miracle. The Other Is As Though Everything Is.'

Any Brief Military Advantage The Usa Might Gain With Nuclear Weapons Would Be Offset By Political And Psychological Losses And Damage To American Prestige. The United States Might Even Touch Off A Worldwide Armaments Race.

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

Dostoevsky Gives Me More Than Any Scientist, More Than Gauss.

The Only Reason For Time Is So That Everything Doesn't Happen At Once.

Everything You Can Imagine, Nature Has Already Created.

X + Y + Z X Is Work. Y Is Play. Z Is Keep Your Mouth Shut.

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If We Think Of The Field As Being Removed, There Is No 'space' Which Remains, Since Space Does Not Have An Independent Existence.

In The Middle Of Difficulties Lie Opportunities.

The Only Sure Way To Avoid Making Mistakes Is To Have No New Ideas.

I Speak To Everyone In The Same Way, Whether He Is The Garbage Man Or The President Of The University.

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.

Just As With The Man In The Fairy Tale Who Turned Whatever He Touched Into Gold, With Me Everything Is Turned Into Newspaper Clamor.

The Pioneers Of A Warless World Are The Young Men (and Women) Who Refuse Military Service.

Striving For Peace And Preparing For War Are Incompatible With Each Other, And In Our Time More So Than Ever.

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

The Distinctions Separating The Social Classes Are False; In The Last Analysis They Rest On Force.

I Now See The Necessity Of A Beginning.

Empathy Is Patiently And Sincerely Seeing The World Through The Other Person's Eyes. It Is Not Learned In School; It Is Cultivated Over A Lifetime.

I Never Thought That Others Would Take My Theories So Much More Seriously Than I Did.

People Should Be More Like Animals . . . They Should Be More Intuitive; They Should Not Be Too Conscious Of What They Do While They Do 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.

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.

Whatever There Is Of God And Goodness In The Universe, It Must Work Itself Out And Express Itself Through Us. We Cannot Stand Aside And Let God Do It.

In Every True Searcher Of Nature There Is A Kind Of Religious Reverence.

What I'm Really Interested In Is Whether God Could Have Made The World In A Different Way; That Is, Whether The Necessity Of Logical Simplicity Leaves Any Freedom At All.

Only A Very Dull Man Spells A Word The Same Way Twice.

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What A Deep Faith In The Rationality Of The Structure Of The World And What A Longing To Understand Even A Small Glimpse Of The Reason Revealed In The World There Must Have Been In Kepler And Newton To Enable Them To Unravel The Mechanism Of The Heavens In Long Years Of Lonely Work!

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Without The Sense Of Fellowship With Men Of Like Mind, Of Preoccupation With The Objective, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Research, Life Would Have Seemed To Me Empty.

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.

Bear In Mind That The Wonderful Things You Learn In Your Schools Are The Work Of Many Generations. All This Is Put In Your Hands As Your Inheritance In Order That You May Receive It, Honor It, Add To It, And One Day Faithfully Hand It On To Your Children.

I Didn't Arrive At My Understanding Of The Fundamental Laws Of The Universe Through My Rational Mind.

Any Power Must Be An Enemy Of Mankind Which Enslaves The Individual By Power And By Force, Whether It Arises Under The Fascist Or The Communist Flag. All That Is Valuable In Human Society Depends Upon The Opportunity For Development Accorded To The Individual.

We Are All Very Ignorant. What Happens Is That Not All Ignore The Same Things.

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

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I Am Not An Atheist. I Do Not Know If I Can Define Myself As A Pantheist. The Problem Involved Is Too Vast For Our Limited Minds.

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Understanding Physics Is Child's Play When Compared To Understanding Child's Play.

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The Facts, Although Interesting, Are Irrelevant.

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It Is My View That The Vegetarian Manner Of Living, By Its Purely Physical Effect On The Human Temperament, Would Most Beneficially Influence The Lot Of Mankind.

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

My Sailing System Set Sail, Make It Fast, No Thoughts Of Energy Or Velocity, Loll Back, Let Boat Drift.

The Only Rational Way Of Educating Is To Be An Example. If One Can't Help It, A Warning Example.

As An Elderly Man, I Have Remained Estranged From The Society Here.

You Cannot Beat A Roulette Table Unless You Steal Money From It.

Politics Is A Pendulum Whose Swings Between Anarchy And Tyranny Are Fueled By Perennially Rejuvenated Illusions.

Don't Become A Seeker Of Success. Become A Person Of Value.

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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.

If You Cannot Explain It Simply, You Do Not Understand It Enough.

The Main Task Of The Spirit Is To Free Man From His Ego.

My Political Ideal Is Democracy. Let Every Man Be Respected As An Individual And No Man Idolized.

The Dog Is Very Smart. He Feels Sorry For Me Because I Receive So Much Mail; That's Why He Tries To Bite The Mailman.

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.

America Is A Large Country And Its People Have So Far Not Shown Much Interest In Great International Problems, Among Which The Problem Of Disarmament Occupies First Place Today. This Must Be Changed, If Only In America's Own Interest. The Last War Has Shown That There Are No Longer Any Barriers Between The Continents And That The Destinies Of All Countries Are Closely Interwoven. The People Of This Country Must Realize That They Have A Great Responsibility In The Sphere Of International Politics. The Part Of Passive Spectator Is Unworthy Of This Country And Is Bound In The End To Lead To Disaster All Round.

When I Have One Week To Solve A Seemingly Impossible Problem, I Spend Six Days Defining The Problem. Then, The Solution Becomes Obvious.

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

When A Man Is Sufficiently Motivated, Discipline Will Take Care Of Itself.

On The Other Hand, Although I Have A Regular Work Schedule, I Take Time To Go For Long Walks On The Beach So That I Can Listen To What Is Going On Inside My Head. If My Work Isn't Going Well, I Lie Down In The Middle Of A Workday And Gaze At The Ceiling While I Listen And Visualize What Goes On In My Imagination.

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

If You're Not Sure Why You're Doing Something, You Can Never Do Enough Of It. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.

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

The Most Practical Solution Is A Good Theory.

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

The Economists Will Have To Revise Their Theories Of Value.

Manager Solves Problems, Leader Prevents Them.

I Should Very Much Like To Remain In The Darkness Of Not Having Been Analyzed.

The Secret To Creativity Is Knowing How To Hide Your Sources.

How Was I Able To Live Alone Before, My Little Everything? Without You I Lack Self-confidence, Passion For Work, And Enjoyment Of Life--in Short, Without You, My Life Is No Life. [written To His Wife, Mileva]

Self Confidence

If I Were Wrong, Wouldn't One Be Enough?

Since I Have Introduced This Term I Had Always A Bad Conscience. . . . I Cannot Help To Feel It Strongly And I Am Unable To Believe That Such An Ugly Thing Should Be Realized In Nature.

Concern For Man Himself Must Always Constitute The Chief Objective Of All Technological Effort

Science Can Only State What Is, Not What Should Be.

You Can't Use An Old Map To Explore A New World.

The Solitude And Peace Of Mind Are Serving Me Quite Well, Not The Least Of Which Is Due To The Excellent And Truly Enjoyable Relationship With My Cousin; Its Stability Will Be Guaranteed By The Avoidance Of Marriage.

If I Am Right The Germans Will Say I Was A German, And The French Will Say I Was A Jew; If I Am Wrong The Germans Will Say I Was A Jew And The French Will Say I Was A German.

I Do Not Believe That A Moral Philosophy Can Ever Be Founded On A Scientific Basis. … The Valuation Of Life And All Its Nobler Expressions Can Only Come Out Of The Soul’s Yearning Toward Its Own Destiny. Every Attempt To Reduce Ethics To Scientific Formulas Must Fail. Of That I Am Perfectly Convinced.

Mathematics Deals Exclusively With The Relations Of Concepts To Each Other Without Consideration Of Their Relation To Experience.

Without Creative, Independently Thinking And Judging Personalities The Upward Development Of Society Is As Unthinkable As The Development Of The Individual Personality Without The Nourishing Soil Of The Community.

Joy And Amazement Of The Beauty And Grandeur Of This World Of Which Man Can Just Form A Faint Notion.

There's A Genius In All Of Us.

Bureaucracy Is The Death Of All Sound Work.

Government Bureaucracy

Jesus Is Too Colossal For The Pen Of Phrasemongers, However Artful. No Man Can Dispose Of Christianity With A Bon Mot

If You Can't Explain It Simply, You Don't Understand It Well Enough.

The Years Of Anxious Searching In The Dark, With Their Intense Longing, Their Alternations Of Confidence And Exhaustion And The Final Emergence Into The Light -- Only Those Who Have Experienced It Can Understand It.

... 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.

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Curiosity Is Its Own Reason.

It's Very Depressing To Live In A Time Where It's Easier To Break An Atom Than A Prejudice.

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.

I Want To Know God's Thoughts.

Everyone Sits In The Prison Of His Own Ideas; He Must Burst It Open, And That In His Youth, And So Try To Test His Ideas On Reality.

There Comes A Time When The Mind Takes A Higher Plane Of Knowledge But Can Never Prove How It Got There.

Life Is A Mystery, Not A Problem Waiting To Be Solved.

Often In Evolutionary Processes A Species Must Adapt To New Conditions In Order To Survive. Today The Atomic Bomb Has Altered Profoundly The Nature Of The World As We Know It, And The Human Race Consequently Finds Itself In A New Habitat To Which It Must Adapt Its Thinking.

Even On The Most Solemn Occasions I Got Away Without Wearing Socks And Hid That Lack Of Civilization In High Boots

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 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.

No Fairer Destiny Could Be Allotted To Any Physical Theory Than That It Should Of Itself Point Out The Way To The Introduction Of A More Comprehensive Theory, In Which It Lives On As A Limiting Case.

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.

I Am Not Only A Pacifist But A Militant Pacifist. I Am Willing To Fight For Peace. Nothing Will End War Unless The People Themselves Refuse To Go To War.

The Basic Laws Of The Universe Are Simple, But Because Our Senses Are Limited, We Can’t Grasp Them. There Is A Pattern In Creation.

I Am Doing Just Fine, Considering That I Have Triumphantly Survived Nazism And Two Wives.

The Devil Craps On The Big Pile

The Bigotry Of The Nonbeliever Is For Me Nearly As Funny As The Bigotry Of The Believer.

Physics Is Essentially An Intuitive And Concrete Science. Mathematics Is Only A Means For Expressing The Laws That Govern Phenomena.

"one Becomes A Deeply Religious Nonbeliever...". It Is Clear From The Original That It Is Definitely Not "i".

To Punish Me For My Contempt For Authority, Fate Made Me An Authority Myself.

During The Last Century, And Part Of The One Before, It Was Widely Held That There Was An Unreconcilable Conflict Between Knowledge And Belief. The Opinion Prevailed Amoung 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. 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.

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

A Happy Man Is Too Satisfied With The Present To Dwell Too Much On The Future.

Whatever Your Problems In Math Are, I Assure Mine Are Greater.

Play Is The Highest From Of Research.

Time Is Not At All What It Seems. It Does Not Flow In Only One Direction, And The Future Exists Simultaneously With The Past.

The Thinking That Got Us To Where We Are Is Not The Thinking That Will Get Us To Where We Want To Be.

From The Standpoint Of Daily Life, However, There Is One Thing We Do Know: That We Are Here For The Sake Of Each Other.

For Every One Billion Particles Of Antimatter There Were One Billion And One Particles Of Matter. And When The Mutual Annihilation Was Complete, One Billionth Remained - And That's Our Present Universe.

I Do Not Believe In Race As Such. Race Is A Fraud. All Modern People Are The Conglomeration Of So Many Ethnic Mixtures That No Pure Race Remains.

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

Opportunities To Learn

Conceptions Without Experience Are Void; Experience Without Conceptions Is Blind.

A Thought That Sometimes Makes Me Hazy: Am I - Or Are The Others Crazy?

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.

There Is Separation Of Colored People From White People In The United States. That Separation Is Not A Disease Of Colored People. It Is A Disease Of White People. I Do Not Intend To Be Quiet About It.

The Great Need To Grasp Principles Had Caused Me To Spend Most Of My Time On Fruitless Persuits.

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.

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

The Religion Of The Future Will Be A Cosmic Religion. It Should Transcend A Personal God And Avoid Dogmas And Theology. Covering Both The Natural And The Spiritual, It Should Be Based On A Religious Sense Arising From The Experience Of All Things, Natural And Spiritual, As A Meaningful Unity. Buddhism Answers This Description.

There Is No Greater Satisfaction For A Just And Well-meaning Person Than The Knowledge That He Has Devoted His Best Energies To The Service Of The Good Cause.

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

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 Unleashed Power Of The Atom Has Changed Everything Except Our Thinking. Thus, We Are Drifting Toward Catastrophe Beyond Conception. We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Mankind Is To Survive.

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

I Take It To Be True That Pure Thought Can Grasp The Real, As The Ancients Had Dreamed.

May The Conscience And The Common Sense Of The Peoples Be Awakened, So That We May Reach A New Stage In The Life Of Nations, Where People Will Look Back On War As An Incomprehensible Aberration Of Their Forefathers!

I Think We Have To Safeguard Ourselves Against People Who Are A Menace To Others, Quite Apart From What May Have Motivated Their Deeds.

Small Is The Number Of Them That See With Their Own Eyes And Feel With Their Own Hearts.

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