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I Am Satisfied With The Mystery Of Life's Eternity And With A Knowledge, A Sense, Of The Marvelous Structure Of Existence - As Well As The Humble Attempt To Understand Even A Tiny Portion Of The Reason That Manifests Itself In Nature.

-Albert Einstein

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I Am Satisfied With The Mystery Of Life's Eternity And With A Knowledge, A Sense, Of The Marvelous Structure Of Existence - As Well As The Humble Attempt To Understand Even A Tiny Portion Of The Reason That Manifests Itself In Nature.

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When I Was Young, All I Wanted And Expected From Life Was To Sit Quietly In Some Corner Doing My Work Without The Public Paying Attention To Me. And Now See What Has Become Of Me.

I Never Think Of The Future. It Comes Soon Enough. When Visiting The U.s. From Germany For A Winter Academic Stay.

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.

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We Must Not Only Learn To Tolerate Our Differences. We Must Welcome Them As The Richness And Diversity Which Can Lead To True Intelligence.

Nationalism Is The Measels Of Mankind.

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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.

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

It Is Enough For Me To Contemplate The Mystery Of Conscious Life Perpetuating Itself Through All Eternity, To Reflect Upon The Marvelous Structure Of The Universe Which We Dimly Perceive, And To Try Humbly To Comprehend An Infinitesimal Part Of The Intelligence Manifested In Nature.

In Two Weeks The Sheeplike Masses Of Any Country Can Be Worked Up By The Newspapers Into Such A State Of Excited Fury That Men Are Prepared To Put On Uniforms And Kill And Be Killed, For The Sake Of The Sordid Ends Of A Few Interested Parties. Compulsory Military Service Seems To Me The Most Disgraceful Symptom Of That Deficiency In Personal Dignity From Which Civilized Mankind Is Suffering Today.

Peace Cannot Be Kept By Force; It Can Only Be Achieved By Understanding.

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

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.

If One Holds These High Principles Clearly Before One's Eyes, And Compares Them With The Life And Spirit Of Our Times, Then It Appears Glaringly That Civilized Mankind Finds Itself At Present In Grave Danger. In The Totalitarian States It Is The Rulers Themselves Who Strive Actually To Destroy That Spirit Of Humanity. In Less Threatened Parts It Is Nationalism And Intolerance, As Well As The Oppression Of The Individuals By Economic Means, Which Threaten To Choke These Most Precious Traditions.

What Really Interests Me Is Whether God Had Any Choice In The Creation Of The World.

The Only Mistake In Life Is The Lesson Not Learned.

You Think You Have Troubles With Mathematics . . . I Assure You Mine Are Still Bigger.

Since Our Inner Experiences Consist Of Reproductions, And Combinations Of Sensory Impressions, The Concept Of A Soul Without A Body Seem To Me To Be Empty And Devoid Of Meaning.

Peace Comes Through Understanding

Let Every Man Judge According To His Own Standards, By What He Has Himself Read, Not By What Others Tell Him.

Politics Is More Difficult Than Physics.

Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Opposition From Mediocre Minds. The Mediocre Mind Is Incapable Of Understanding The Man Who Refuses To Bow Blindly To Conventional Prejudices And Chooses Instead To Express His Opinions Courageously And Honestly.

I Think That Only Daring Speculation Can Lead Us Further And Not Accumulation Of Facts.

There Is Only One Road To Human Greatness: Through The School Of Hard Knocks.

I Have Never Belonged Wholeheartedly To A Country, A State, Nor To A Circle Of Friends, Nor Even To My Own Family. When I Was Still A Rather Precocious Young Man, I Already Realized Most Vividly The Futility Of The Hopes And Aspirations That Most Men Pursue Throughout Their Lives. Well-being And Happiness Never Appeared To Me As An Absolute Aim. I Am Even Inclined To Compare Such Moral Aims To The Ambitions Of A Pig.

I'm Not A Genius. I'm Just Passionately Curious.

Fantasie Is Belangrijker Dan Kennis, Want Kennis Is Begrensd.

One Lives One's Life Under Constant Tension, Until It's Time To Go For Good

It Is Harder To Crack Prejudice Than An Atom.

I Am Strongly Drawn To The Simple Life And Am Often Oppressed By The Feeling That I Am Engrossing An Unnecessary Amount Of The Labour Of My Fellow Men. I Regard Class Differences As Contrary To Justice And, In The Last Resort, Based On Force. I Also Consider That Plain Living Is Good For Everybody, Physically And Mentally.

Of What Significance Is One's Existence, One Is Basically Unaware. What Does A Fish Know About The Water In Which He Swims All His Life? The Bitter And The Sweet Come From Outside. The Hard From Within, From One's Own Efforts. For The Most Part I Do What My Own Nature Drives Me To Do. It Is Embarrassing To Earn Such Respect And Love For It.

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

Those Instrumental Goods Which Should Serve To Maintain The Life And Health Of All Human Beings Should Be Produced By The Least Possible Labour Of All.

Discussion And Argument Are Essential Parts Of Science; The Greatest Talent Is The Ability To Strip A Theory Until The Simple Basic Idea Emerges With Clarity.

It Is My Inner Conviction That The Development Of Science Seeks In The Main To Satisfy The Longing For Pure Knowledge.

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Compound Interest Is The Eighth Natural Wonder Of The World And The Most Powerful Thing I Have Ever Encountered.

Natural Wonders

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

Give Back To The World At Least What You've Received.

Live Your Life... As Though Everything Is A Miracle.

It Is Not A Lack Of Real Affection That Scares Me Away Again And Again From Marriage. Is It A Fear Of The Comfortable Life, Of Nice Furniture, Of Dishonor That I Burden Myself With, Or Even The Fear Of Becoming A Contented Bourgeois.

Relativity Teaches Us The Connection Between The Different Descriptions Of One And The Same Reality.

An Oligarchy Of Private Capital Cannot Be Effectively Checked Even By A Democratically Organized Political Society Because Under Existing Conditions, Private Capitalists Inevitably Control, Directly Or Indirectly, The Main Sources Of Information.

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

Agreements About What Is Good Or Not, Are Usually Not Worth Much. It Is Very Much Like Art, Is It Not An Art To Lead A Good Life?

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

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

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We Sleep 1/3 Of Our Lives Away.

In Their Struggle For The Ethical Good, Teachers Of Religion Must Have The Stature To Give Up The Doctrine Of A Personal God.

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

If There Is A God

Desire For Approval And Recognition Is A Healthy Motive, But The Desire To Be Acknowledged As Better, Stronger, Or More Intelligent Than A Fellow Being Or Fellow Scholar Easily Leads To An Excessively Egoistic Psychological Adjustment, Which May Become Injurious For The Individual And For The Community.

You Might As Well Not Be Alive If You're Not In Awe Of God.

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When You Sit With A Nice Girl For Two Hours, It Seems Like Two Minutes; When You Sit On A Hot Stove For Two Minutes, It Seems Like Two Hours. That's Relativity.

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I Know Little About Nature And Hardly Anything About Men.

It Is A Precarious Undertaking To Say Anything Reliable About Aims And Intentions.

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

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To A Student: Dear Miss - I Have Read About Sixteen Pages Of Your Manuscript . . . I Suffered Exactly The Same Treatment At The Hands Of My Teachers Who Disliked Me For My Independence And Passed Over Me When They Wanted Assistants. . . . Keep Your Manuscript For Your Sons And Daughters, In Order That They May Derive Consolation From It And Not Give A Damn For What Their Teachers Tell Them Or Think Of Them. . . . There Is Too Much Education Altogether.

I Want To Know The Thoughts Of God. Everything Else Is Just Details.

There Is No Place In This New Kind Of Physics Both For The Field And Matter, For The Field Is The Only Reality.

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

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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.

The State Is Made For Man, Not Man For The State.... That Is To Say, The State Should Be Our Servant And Not We Its Slaves

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Self Confidence

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Gravity Is A Response To Geometry.

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.

The War Is Won, But The Peace Is Not.

I Never Made One Of My Discoveries Through The Process Of Rational Thinking

When I Think Of The Most Able Students I Have Encountered In My Teaching - I Mean Those Who Have Distinguished Themselves Not Only By Skill But By Independence Of Thought - Then I Must Confess That All Have Had A Lively Interest In Epistemology.

The Effort To Strive For Truth Has To Precede All Other Efforts.

New Frameworks Are Like Climbing A Mountain - The Larger View Encompasses Rather Than Rejects The More Restricted View.

God Does Not Play Dice.

The Woman Who Follows The Crowd Will Usually Believe That I Said This.

Following The Crowd

The Most Important Method Of Education Always Has Consisted Of That In Which The Pupil Was Urged To Actual Performance.

The Legs Are The Wheels Of Creativity.

As Far As The Laws Of Mathematics Refer To Reality, They Are Not Certain, And As Far As They Are Certain, They Do Not Refer To Reality.

A Conflict Arises When A Religious Community Insists On The Absolute Truthfulness Of All Statements Recorded In The Bible. This Means An Intervention On The Part Of Religion Into The Sphere Of Science; This Is Where The Struggle Of The Church Against Doctrines Of Galileo And Darwin Belongs.

A Table, A Chair, A Bowl Of Fruit And A Violin; What Else Does A Man Need To Be Happy.

The Tragedy Of Life Is What Dies In The Hearts And Souls Of People While They Live.

I Very Rarely Think In Words At All. A Thought Comes, And I May Try To Express In Words Afterwards.

Three Rules Of Work: Out Of Clutter Find Simplicity. From Discord Find Harmony. In The Middle Of Difficulty Lies Opportunity.

I Have Just Got A New Theory Of Eternity.

Only A Monomaniac Gets Anything Done.

No Idea Is Conceived In Our Mind Independent Of Our Five Senses [i.e., No Idea Is Divinely Inspired].

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

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You Do Not Really Understand Something Unless You Can Explain It To Your Grandmother.

The Future Is Of Greater Interest To Me Than The Past, Since That Is Where I Intend To Spend The Rest Of My Life.

It Is Not So Important Where One Settles Down. The Best Thing Is To Follow Your Instincts Without Too Much Reflection.

Success Comes From Curiosity, Concentration, Perseverance And Self Criticism.

Science Not Only Purifies The Religious Impulse Of The Dross Of Its Anthropomorphism But Also Contributes To A Religious Spiritualization Of Our Understanding Of Life.

Anthropomorphism

Relativity Is A Purely Scientific Matter And Has Nothing To Do With Religion.

My Passionate Sense Of Social Justice And Social Responsibility Has Always Contrasted Oddly With My Pronounced Lack Of Need For Direct Contact With Other Human Beings And Human Communities. I Am Truly A 'lone Traveler' And Have Never Belonged To My Country, My Home, My Friends, Or Even My Immediate Family, With My Whole Heart; In The Face Of All These Ties, I Have Never Lost A Sense Of Distance And A Need For Solitude.

What A Person Thinks On His Own Without Being Stimulated By The Thoughts And Experiences Of The Other People Is Even In The Best Case Rather Paltry And Monotonous.

Not Until We Dare To Regard Ourselves As A Nation, Not Until We Respect Ourselves, Can We Gain The Esteem Of Others, Or Rather Only Then Will It Come Of Its Own Accord

The Pursuit Of Truth And Beauty Is A Sphere Of Activity In Which We Are Permitted To Remain Children All Our Lives.

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

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

Qualities I Sought In A Scientific Theory Were Naturalness, Inner Perfection And Logical Simplicity From An Aesthetic Approach.

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

Matter Is Spirit Reduced To Point Of Visibility.

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

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

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

Eternity Of Life

If There Is A God

Matter Is Energy ... Energy Is Light ... We Are All Light Beings

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

When We First Got Married, We Made A Pact. It Was This: In Our Life Together, It Was Decided I Would Make All Of The Big Decisions And My Wife Would Make All Of The Little Decisions. For Fifty Years, We Have Held True To That Agreement. I Believe That Is The Reason For The Success In Our Marriage. However, The Strange Thing Is That In Fifty Years, There Hasn’t Been One Big Decision.

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

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

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

I Believe We Are Here To Do Good. It Is The Responsibility Of Every Human Being To Aspire To Do Something Worthwhile, To Make The World A Better Place Than The One We Found.

Gravitation Cannot Be Held Responsible For People Falling In Love. How On Earth Can You Explain In Terms Of Chemistry And Physics So Important A Biological Phenomenon As First Love? Put Your Hand On A Stove For A Minute And It Seems Like An Hour. Sit With That Special Girl For An Hour And It Seems Like A Minute. That's Relativity.

Condemnation Without Investigation Is The Height Of Ignorance

If They Want To See Me, Here I Am. If They Want To See My Clothes, Open My Closet And Show Them My Suits.

Only A Life Lived For Others Is A Life Worthwhile.

There Is One Ray Of Hope. It Seems To Me That Today The Responsible Leaders Of The Several Peoples Have, In The Main, The Honest Will To Abolish War.

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.

I Would Absolutely Refuse Any Direct Or Indirect War Service And Would Try To Persuade My Friends To Do The Same, Regardless Of The Reasons For The Cause Of A War.

A Single Bomb Of This Type, Carried By Boat And Exploded In A Port, Might Very Well Destroy The Whole Port, Together With Some Of The Surrounding Territory.

What Lead Me More Or Less Directly To The Special Theory Of Relativity Was The Conviction That The Electromotive Force Acting On A Body In Motion In A Magnetic Field Was Nothing Else But An Electric Field.

Physics Is An Attempt Conceptually To Grasp Reality As Something That Is Considered To Be Independent Of Its Being Observed. In This Sense One Speaks Of Physical Reality.

A Perfection Of Means, And Confusion Of Aims, Seems To Be Our Main Problem.

I Want To Gods Thoughts, The Rest Are Details.

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.

Our Lives Will Be Measured By What We Do For Others

Even Short Words Of Encouragement Is Enough To Enlighten One's Darkened Minds And Make Things A Little Bit Easier To Handle. You Might Be Searching For Short Motivational Quotes, That's Why I'm Here To Give You A Set Of The Best Short Inspiring Quotes. Try Not To Become A Man Of Success But A Man Of Value.

Never Memorize What You Can Look Up In A Book.

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.

I Refuse To Make Money Out Of My Science. My Laurel Is Not For Sale Like So Many Bales Of Cotton.

We Are All Life Trying To Live, Among Other Life Trying To Live.

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

The Greatest Tragedy Of Human Existence Is The Illusion Of Separateness.

I Have Survived Two Wars, Two Wives And Hitler.

At Present Every Coachman And Every Waiter Argues About Whether Or Not The Relativity Theory Is Correct.

Capitalism Has Brought With It Progress, Not Merely In Production But Also In Knowledge.

Thinking Is To Man What Flying Is To Birds. Don’t Follow The Example Of A Chicken When You Could Be A Lark.

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.

It Is Impossible To Get Anywhere Without Sinning Against Reason.

[mystery] Is The Fundamental Emotion That Stands At The Cradle Of True Art And True Science.

Opening Your Mind

As The Area Of Light Expands, So Does The Perimeter Of Darkness.

Anybody Who Really Wants To Abolish War Must Resolutely Declare Himself In Favor Of His Own Country's Resigning A Portion Of Sovereignty In Place Of International Institutions.

In A Sailboat I Become Oblivious To Everything Else In The World.

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.

It Is True That The Grasping Of Truth Is Not Possible Without Empirical Basis. However, The Deeper We Penetrate And The More Extensive And Embracing Our Theories Become The Less Empirical Knowledge Is Needed To Determine Those Theories.

A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing. So Is A Lot.

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!

The Environment Is Everything That Isn't Me.

I Don't Know What Weapons Will Be Used In The Third World War. But I Can Tell You What They'll Use In The Fourth - Rocks!

It Is Also A Natural Thing For A Serious Young Man That He Should Form For Himself As Precise An Idea As Possible Of The Goal Of His Desires.

I Consider It Important, Indeed Urgently Necessary, For Intellectual Workers To Get Together, Both To Protect Their Own Economic Status And, Also, Generally Speaking, To Secure Their Influence In The Political Field.

I Was Supposed To Choose Apractical Profession, But This Was Simply Unbearable To Me.

There Two Things That Are Infinite, Human Stupidity And The Universe, I Don't Know About The Universe

Weak People Revenge. Strong People Forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

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.

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

Only Two Things Are Infinite, The Universe And Human Stupidity, And I'm Not Sure About The Former.

All Our Thoughts And Concepts Are Called Up By Sense-experiences And Have A Meaning Only In Reference To These Sense-experiences. On The Other Hand, However, They Are Products Of The Spontaneous Activity Of Our Minds; They Are Thus In No Wise Logical Consequences Of The Contents Of These Sense-experiences. If, Therefore, We Wish To Grasp The Essence Of A Complex Of Abstract Notions We Must For The One Part Investigate The Mutual Relationships Between The Concepts And The Assertions Made About Them; For The Other, We Must Investigate How They Are Related To The Experiences.

A Person Experiences Life As Something Separated From The Rest - A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of Consciousness. Our Task Must Be To Free Ourselves From This Self-imposed Prison, And Through Compassion, To Find The Reality Of Oneness.

The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts-possessions, Superficial Success, Luxury-have Always Seemed Contemptible To Me.

More The Knowledge Lesser The Ego, Lesser The Knowledge, More The Ego.

Everything That Can Be Counted Does Not Necessarily Count; Everything That Counts Cannot Necessarily Be Counted.

I Admit That Thoughts Influence The Body.

Selection [of Un Delegates] By Governments Cannot Give The Peoples Of The World The Feeling Of Being Fairly And Proportionately Represented. The Moral Authority Of The Un Would Be Considerable Enhanced If The Delegates Were Elected Directly By The People. Were They Responsible To An Electorate, They Would Have Much More Freedom To Follow Their Consciences.

In My Personal Experience I Have Hardly Come To Know The Wretchedness Of Mankind Better Than As A Result Of The General Theory Of Relativity And Everything Connected To It. But It Doesn't Bother Me.

The Intuitive Mind Is A Sacred Gift And The Rational Mind Is A Faithful Servant. We Have Created A Society That Honors The Servant And Has Forgotten The Gift.

The Place Of The Expert Is On Tap Not On Top.

The Idea Of A Being Who Interferes With The Sequence Of Events In The World Is Absolutely Impossible

How Can Cosmic Religious Feeling Be Communicated From One Person To Another, If It Can Give Rise To No Definite Notion Of A God And No Theology? In My View, It Is The Most Important Function Of Art And Science To Awaken This Feeling And Keep It Alive In Those Who Are Receptive To It.

The Intellect Has Little To Do On The Road To Discovery. There Comes A Leap In Consciousness, Call It Intuition Or What You Will, The Solution Comes To You And You Don't Know How Or Why.

It Is Humankind's Duty To Respect All Life, Not Only Animals Have Feelings But Even Also Trees And Plants.

You Believe In The God Who Plays Dice, And I In Complete Law And Order In A World That Objectively Exists, And Which I, In A Wildly Speculative Way, Am Trying To Capture. ... Even The Great Initial Success Of The Quantum Theory Does Not Make Me Believe In The Fundamental Dice-game, Although I Am Well Aware That Our Younger Colleagues Interpret This As A Consequence Of Senility. No Doubt The Day Will Come When We Will See Whose Instinctive Attitude Was The Correct One.

Albert Is A Very Poor Student. He Is Mentally Slow, Unsociable And Is Always Daydreaming. He Is Spoiling It For The Rest Of The Class. It Would Be In The Best Interests Of All If He Were Removed From School Immediately.

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

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.

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.

A Clever Person Solves A Problem. A Wise Person Avoids It.

I Believe In Intuition And Inspiration...at Times I Feel Certain I Am Right While Not Knowing The Reason.

Somebody Who Only Reads Newspapers And At Best Books Of Contemporary Authors Looks To Me Like An Extremely Near-sighted Person Who Scorns Eyeglasses. He Is Completely Dependent On The Prejudices And Fashions Of His Times, Since He Never Gets To See Or Hear Anything Else.

Imagination Is Everything. It Is The Preview Of Life's Coming Attractions. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Never Give Up On What You Really Want To Do. The Person With Big Dreams Is More Powerful Than One With All The Facts.

I Have Deep Faith That The Principle Of The Universe Will Be Beautiful And Simple

Peace Cannot Be Kept By Force. It Can Only Be Achieved By Understanding. You Cannot Subjugate A Nation Forcibly Unless You Wipe Out Every Man, Woman, And Child. Unless You Wish To Use Such Drastic Measures, You Must Find A Way Of Settling Your Disputes Without Resort To Arms.

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?

Fraulein Noether Was The Most Significant Creative Mathematical Genius Thus Far Produced Since The Higher Education Of Women Began.

Is It Not Better For A Man To Die For A Cause In Which He Believes, Such As Peace, Than To Suffer For A Cause In Which He Does Not Believe, Such As War?

There Lies The Weaknesss Of Positivists And Professional Atheists Who Are Elated Because They Feel That They Have Not Only Successfully Rid The World Of Gods But "bared The Miracles." (that Is, Explained The Miracles. - Ed.) Oddly Enough, We Must Be Satisfied To Acknowledge The "miracle" Without There Being Any Legitimate Way For Us To Approach It . I Am Forced To Add That Just To Keep You From Thinking That -weakened By Age-i Have Fallen Prey To The Clergy.

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.

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

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Do You Remember How Electrical Currents And 'unseen Waves' Were Laughed At? The Knowledge About Man Is Still In Its Infancy.

I Like To Think The Moon Is There Even If I Am Not Looking At It.

If I Had Foreseen Hiroshima And Nagasaki, I Would Have Torn Up My Formula In 1905.

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