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I Am Not A Positivist. Positivism States That What Cannot Be Observed Does Not Exist. This Conception Is Scientifically Indefensible, For It Is Impossible To Make Valid Affirmations Of What People 'can' Or 'cannot' Observe. One Would Have To Say 'only What We Observe Exists,' Which Is Obviously False.

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I Am Not A

Albert Einstein

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I Am Not A Positivist. Positivism States That What Cannot Be Observed Does Not Exist. This Conception Is Scientifically Indefensible, For It Is Impossible To Make Valid Affirmations Of What People 'can' Or 'cannot' Observe. One Would Have To Say 'only What We Observe Exists,' Which Is Obviously False.

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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.

With Fame I Become More And More Stupid, Which Of Course Is A Very Common Phenomenon.

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I Cannot Then Believe In This Concept Of An Anthropomorphic God Who Has The Powers Of Interfering With These Natural Laws. As I Said Before, The Most Beautiful And Most Profound Religious Emotion That We Can Experience Is The Sensation Of The Mystical. And This Mysticality Is The Power Of All True Science.

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Subtle Is The Lord. Malicious, He Is Not.

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No Path Leads From A Knowledge Of That Which Is To That Which Should Be.

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

There Are Yet People Who Say There Is No God. But What Really Makes Me Angry Is That They Quote Me For The Support Of Such Views

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A Knowledge Of The Existence Of Something We Cannot Penetrate, Of The Manifestations Of The Profoundest Reason And The Most Radiant Beauty - It Is This Knowledge And This Emotion That Constitute The Truly Religious Attitude; In This Sense, And In This Alone, I Am A Deeply Religious Man.

I Have Repeatedly Said That In My Opinion The Idea Of A Personal God Is A Childlike One.

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The Ancients Knew Something, Which We Seem To Have Forgotten.

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We Cannot Resolve The Problems Of The World By Unsing The Same Techniques That Have Created Them.

If You Do The Same Thing Over And Over Again You Cannot Ever Expect A Different Outcome.

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.

Raffiniert Ist Der Herr Gott, Aber Boshaft Ist Er Nicht. God Is Subtle, But He Is Not Malicious.

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.

The Beauty Of It Is That We Have To Content Ourselves With The Recognition Of The Miracle, Beyond Which There Is No Legitimate Way Out.

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You Have To Color Outside The Lines Once In A While If You Want To Make Your Life A Masterpiece.

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The Release Of Atomic Power Has Changed Everything Except Our Way Of Thinking ... The Solution To This Problem Lies In The Heart Of Mankind. If Only I Had Known, I Should Have Become A Watchmaker. (1945)

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Games Are The Most Elevated Form Of Investigation.

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Common Sense Invents And Constructs No Less Than Its Own Field Than Science Does In Its Domain. It Is, However, In The Nature Of Common Sense Not To Be Aware Of This Situation.

I Cannot Accept Any Concept Of God Based On The Fear Of Life Or The Fear Of Death, Or Blind Faith. I Cannot Prove To You That There Is No Personal God, But If I Were To Speak Of Him I Would Be A Liar.

Imagination Encircles The World.

Time Has No Independent Existence Apart From The Order Of Events By Which We Measure It.

Do You Believe In Miracles? Well, You Should. In Fact, Life Itself Is A Big Miracle. There Are So Many Things That Are Beyond Our Understanding. There Are Two Ways To Live: You Can Live As If Nothing Is A Miracle; You Can Live As If Everything Is A Miracle.

Nationalism Is An Infantile Disease. It Is The Measles Of Mankind.

One Cannot Learn So Well As By Experiencing It Oneself.

Keep On Sowing Your Seed, For You Never Know Which Will Grow - Perhaps It All Will.

Measured Objectively, What A Man Can Wrest From Truth By Passionate Striving Is Utterly Infinitesimal. But The Striving Frees Us From The Bonds Of The Self And Makes Us Comrades Of Those Who Are The Best And The Greatest.

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.

In Any Conflict Between Humanity And Technology, Humanity Will Win.

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.

My Position Concerning God Is That Of An Agnostic.

Reward And Punishment

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

Even Trivial Events Demonstrate Strong Devotion To The Universe And Small Concern For Ego.

It Is Strange To Be Known So Universally And Yet To Be So Lonely.

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.

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

We Can Understand Almost Anything, But We Can't Understand How We Understand.

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

The Important Thing Is To Never Stop Questioning. Never Lose A Holy Curiosity.

The Most Incomprehensible Thing About The World Is That It Is Comprehensible.

I Am A Jew, But I Am Enthralled By The Luminous Figure Of The Nazarene….no One Can Read The Gospels Without Feeling The Actual Presence Of Jesus.

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.

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?

The Truth Of A Theory Is In Your Mind, Not In Your Eyes.

There Comes A Point In Your Life When You Need To Stop Reading Other People's Books And Write Your Own.

When You Are Courting A Nice Girl An Hour Seems Like A Second.

Funny Inspirational

You Cannot Prevent And Prepare For War At The Same Time.

Logic Will Get You From A To B. Imagination Will Take You Everywhere.

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.

Enjoying The Joys Of Others And Suffering With Them-these Are The Best Guides For Man.

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

The Intuitive Mind Is A Sacred Gift.

Gifts Of The Spirit

Faithful Servants

The Human Spirit Must Prevail Over Technology.

There Has Been An Earth For A Little More Than A Billion Years. As For The Question Of The End Of It I Advise: Wait And See!

Outer Changes Always Begin With An Inner Change Of Attitude.

People Like Us, Who Believe In Physics, Know That The Distinction Between Past, Present, And Future Is Only A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion.

I Am Not More Gifted Than Anybody Else. I Am Just More Curious Than The Average Person And I Will Not Give Up A Problem Until I Have Found The Proper Solution.

One Must Take What Nature Gives As One Finds It.

I Believe In Intuitions And Inspirations...i Sometimes Feel That I Am Right. I Do Not Know That I Am.

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

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

Killing Someone

Genius Is Making Complex Ideas Simple, Not Making Simple Ideas Complex

It Followed From The Special Theory Of Relativity That Mass And Energy Are Both But Different Manifestations Of The Same Thing - A Somewhat Unfamiliar Conception For The Average Mind. Furthermore, The Equation E = Mc², In Which Energy Is Put Equal To Mass, Multiplied By The Square Of The Velocity Of Light, Showed That Very Small Amounts Of Mass May Be Converted Into A Very Large Amount Of Energy And Vice Versa.

Mankind Must Give Up War In The Atomic Era. What Is At Stake Is The Life Or Death Of Humanity.

O, Youth: Do You Know That Yours Is Not The First Generation To Yearn For A Life Full Of Beauty And Freedom?

The Point Is To Develop The Childlike Inclination For Play And The Childlike Desire For Recognition And To Guide The Child Over To Important Fields For Society. Such A School Demands From The Teacher That He Be A Kind Of Artist In His Province.

Schools Need Not Preach Political Doctrine To Defend Democracy. If They Shape Men Capable Of Critical Thought And Trained In Social Attitudes, That Is All That Is Necessary.

The Religion Of The Future Will Be A Cosmic Religion. The Religion Which Based On Experience, Which Refuses Dogmatic. If There's Any Religion That Would Cope The Scientific Needs It Will Be Buddhism.

Once Again You Are Wrong Sir, Darkness Does Not Exist Either. Darkness Is In Reality The Absence Of Light. Light We Can Study, But Not Darkness. In Fact We Can Use Newton's Prism To Break White Light Into Many Colors And Study The Various Wavelengths Of Each Color. You Cannot Measure Darkness. A Simple Ray Of Light Can Break Into A World Of Darkness And Illuminate It. How Can You Know How Dark A Certain Space Is? You Measure The Amount Of Light Present. Isn't This Correct? Darkness Is A Term Used By Man To Describe What Happens When There Is No Light Present.

I Would Not Think That Philosophy And Reason Themselves Will Be Man's Guide In The Foreseeable Future; However, They Will Remain The Most Beautiful Sanctuary They Have Always Been For The Select Few.

I Have Not Eaten Enough Of The Tree Of Knowledge, Though In My Profession I Am Obligated To Feed On It Regularly.

Common To All These Types Is The Anthropomorphic Character Of Their Conception Of God. In General, Only Individuals Of Exceptional Endowments, And Exceptionally High-minded Communities, Rise To Any Considerable Extent Above This Level. But There Is A Third Stage Of Religious Experience Which Belongs To All Of Them, Even Though It Is Rarely Found In A Pure Form: I Shall Call It Cosmic Religious Feeling. It Is Very Difficult To Elucidate This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It.

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.

The More I Study Science, The More I Believe In God.

He Who Cherishes The Value Of Cultures Cannot Fail To Be A Pacifist.

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

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.

If I Would Be A Young Man Again And Had To Decide How To Make My Living, I Would Not Try To Become A Scientist Or Scholar Or Teacher. I Would Rather Choose To Be A Plumber Or A Peddler In Hope To Find That Modest Degree Of Independence Still Available Under Present Circumstances.

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

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Men Should Continue To Fight, But They Should Fight For Things Worth While, Not For Imaginary Geographical Lines, Racial Prejudices And Private Greed Draped In The Color's Of Patriotism.

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

Politics Is Far More Complicated Than Physics.

The Gravity Is The First Thing Which You Don't Think

For Me The Jewish Religion Like All Others Is An Incarnation Of The Most Childish Superstitions, And The Jewish People To Whom I Gladly Belong And With Whose Mentality I Have A Deep Affinity Have No Different Quality For Me Than All Other People. As Far As My Experience Goes, They Are No Better Than Other Human Groups, Although They Are Protected From The Worst Cancers By A Lack Of Power. Otherwise I Cannot See Anything Chosen About Them.

Strange Is Our Situation Here Upon Earth.

Intellectual Growth Should Commence At Birth And Cease Only At Death.

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