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I Am An Adherent Of The Ideal Of Democracy, Although I Well Know The Weaknesses Of The Democratic Form Of Government. Social Equality And Economic Protection Of The Individual Appeared To Me Always As The Important Communal Aims Of The State. Although I Am A Typical Loner In Daily Life, My Consciousness Of Belonging To The Invisible Community Of Those Who Strive For Truth, Beauty, And Justice Has Preserved Me From Feeling Isolated.

-Albert Einstein

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I Am An Adherent

Albert Einstein

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I Am An Adherent Of The Ideal Of Democracy, Although I Well Know The Weaknesses Of The Democratic Form Of Government. Social Equality And Economic Protection Of The Individual Appeared To Me Always As The Important Communal Aims Of The State. Although I Am A Typical Loner In Daily Life, My Consciousness Of Belonging To The Invisible Community Of Those Who Strive For Truth, Beauty, And Justice Has Preserved Me From Feeling Isolated.

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Men Marry Women With The Hope They Will Never Change. Women Marry Men With The Hope They Will Change. Invariably They Are Both Disappointed.

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Only Strong Characters Can Resist The Temptation Of Superficial Analysis.

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Nothing Happens Til Something Moves.

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All I Want To Do Is Learn To Think Like God. All The Rest Is Just Details.

Intuitive Powers Played A Central Role In My Scientific Work, Not Wild Speculation, Yet A Valued Resource When No Other Approach Was Available.

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Nothing Truly Valuable Arises From Ambition Or From A Mere Sense Of Duty; It Stems Rather From Love And Devotion Towards Men And Towards Objective Things.

Whoever Is Careless With The Truth In Small Matters Cannot Be Trusted In Important Affairs.

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.

Well, I Have Considered Myself To Be Very Fortunate In That I Have Been Able To Do Mostly Only That Which My Inner Self Told Me To Do... I Am Also Aware That I Do Receive Much Criticism From The Outside World For What I Do And Some People Actually Get Angry At Me. But This Does Not Really Touch Me Because I Feel That These People Do Not Live In He Same World As Do I.

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I Want To Know How God Created This World. I Am Not Interested In This Or That Phenomenon, In The Spectrum Of This Or That Element. I Want To Know God's Thoughts, The Rest Are Details.

By Academic Freedom I Understand The Right To Search For Truth And To Publish And Teach What One Holds To Be True. This Right Implies Also A Duty: One Must Not Conceal Any Part Of What On Has Recognized To Be True. It Is Evident That Any Restriction On Academic Freedom Acts In Such A Way As To Hamper The Dissemination Of Knowledge Among The People And Thereby Impedes National Judgment And Action.

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.

I Assert That The Cosmic Religious Experience Is The Strongest And The Noblest Driving Force Behind Scientific Research.

Politics Is More Difficult Than Physics.

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[misquotation; Not By Einstein.] If Only I Had Known, I Should Have Become A Watchmaker. [apparently Remorseful For His Role In The Development Of The Atom Bomb.]

The Payment Of The Worker Is Not Determined By The Value Of His Product.

My Deep Religiosity [...] Found An Abrupt Ending At The Age Of Twelve, Through The Reading Of Popular Scientific Books.

It's Not That I'm So Smart.

The Facts, Although Interesting, Are Irrelevant.

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

Watch The Stars, And From Them Learn.

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.

That Deep Emotional Conviction Of The Presence Of A Superior Reasoning Power, Which Is Revealed In The Incomprehensible Universe, Forms My Idea Of God.

A Problem Defined, Is A Problem Half Solved.

Was Wirklich Zählt, Ist Intuition

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