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I Once Thought That If I Could Ask God One Question, I Would Ask How The Universe Began, Because Once I Knew That, All The Rest Is Simply Equations. But As I Got Older I Became Less Concerned With How The Universe Began. Rather, I Would Want To Know Why He Started The Universe. For Once I Knew That Answer, Then I Would Know The Purpose Of My Own Life.

-Albert Einstein

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I Once Thought That If I Could Ask God One Question, I Would Ask How The Universe Began, Because Once I Knew That, All The Rest Is Simply Equations. But As I Got Older I Became Less Concerned With How The Universe Began. Rather, I Would Want To Know Why He Started The Universe. For Once I Knew That Answer, Then I Would Know The Purpose Of My Own Life.

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Our Task Must Be To Free Ourselves By Widening Our Circle Of Compassion To Embrace All Living Creatures And The Whole Of Nature And Its Beauty.

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Our Defense Is Not In Our Armaments, Nor In Science, Nor In Going Underground. Our Defense Is In Law And Order.

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Communities Tend To Be Guided Less Than Individuals By Conscience And A Sense Of Responsibility. How Much Misery Does This Fact Cause Mankind! It Is The Source Of Wars And Every Kind Of Oppression, Which Fill The Earth With Pain, Sighs And Bitterness.

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Our Separation From Each Other Is An Optical Illusion.

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Weakness Of Attitude Becomes Weakness Of Character; It Becomes Lack Of Power To Act With Courage Proportionate To Danger. All This Must Lead To The Destruction Of Our Intellectual Life Unless The Danger Summons Up Strong Personalities Able To Fill The Lukewarm And Discouraged With New Strength And Resolution.

Everybody Acts Not Only Under External Compulsion But Also In Accordance With Inner Necessity.

Overemphasis Of The Competitive System And Premature Specialization On The Ground Of Immediate Usefulness Kill The Spirit On Which All Cultural Life Depends, Specialized Knowledge Included.

What Is Significant In One's Own Existence One Is Hardly Aware, And It Certainly Should Not Bother The Other Fellow. What Does A Fish Know About The Water In Which He Swims All His Life?

Life Is Sacred, That Is To Say, It Is The Supreme Value, To Which All Other Values Are Subordinate.

Compound Interest On Debt Was The Banker's Greatest Invention, To Capture, And Enslave, A Productive Society.

I Want To Know All God's Thoughts.

What Counts Can't Always Be Counted; What Can Be Counted Doesn't Always Count.

Don't Let The Measurable Drive Out The Relevant

The Measure Of Intelligence Is The Ability To Change.

I Never Think Of The Future - It Comes Soon Enough.

If There Is Any Religion That Could Respond To The Needs Of Modern Science, It Would Be Buddhism.

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

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

It Is Impossible To Solve Significant Problems Using The Same Knowledge That Created Them.

I Never Teach My Pupils, I Only Attempt To Provide The Conditions In Which They Can Learn.

But Science Can Only Be Created By Those Who Are Thoroughly Imbued With The Aspiration Toward Truth And Understanding. This Source Of Feeling, However, Springs From The Sphere Of Religion. To This There Also Belongs The Faith In The Possibility That The Regulations Valid For The World Of Existence Are Rational, That Is, Comprehensible To Reason. I Cannot Conceive Of A Genuine Scientist Without That Profound Faith. The Situation May Be Expressed By An Image: Science Without Religion Is Lame, Religion Without Science Is Blind.

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The Chicken Did Not Cross The Road. The Road Passed Beneath The Chicken.

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

Culture In Its Higher Forms Is A Delicate Plant Which Depends On A Complicated Set Of Conditions And Is Wont To Flourish Only In A Few Places At Any Given Time.

Israel Is The Only Place On Earth Where Jews Have The Possibility To Shape Public Life According To Their Own Traditional Ideals.

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.

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

God Reveals Himself In The Orderly Harmony Of What Exists.

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

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The Genius Is In Making The Complex Simple.

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You Can't Resolve A Dilemma With All The Very Same Mind That Made It

The Legs Are The Wheels Of Creativity.

It Is Not By Sitting Still At A Grand Distance And Calling The Human Race Larvae That Men Are To Be Helped.

Stand Still. The Trees Ahead And Bush Beside You Are Not Lost.

Time And Space Are Modes By Which We Think And Not Conditions In Which We Live.

The State Is Made For Mankind, Not Mankind For The State

If One Tries To Navigate Unknown Waters One Runs The Risk Of Shipwreck

The Distinction Between The Past, Present And Future Is Only A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion.

Man Is, At One And The Same Time, A Solitary Being And A Social Being.

I Want To Know God's Thoughts.

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

Nature Shows Us Only The Tail Of The Lion. But There Is No Doubt In My Mind That The Lion Belongs With It Even If He Cannot Reveal Himself To The Eye All At Once Because Of His Huge Dimension.

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.

You Cannot Simultaneously Prevent And Prepare For War.

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.

The Most Important Human Endeavor Is The Striving For Morality In Our Actions.

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Philosophy Is Empty If It Isn't Based On Science. Science Discovers, Philosophy Interprets.

When The Nazis Came To Power, I Looked To The Universities That Prided Themselves Upon Their Intellectual Freedom, And They Failed Me. I Looked To The German Press, Which Prided Itself On The Freedom Of The Press, And It Failed Me. Until At Last The Churches Stood Alone, And That For Which I Once Had Little Regard Earned My Respect.

A Man Must Learn To Understand The Motives Of Human Beings, Their Illusions, And Their Sufferings.

There Have Already Been Published By The Bucketsful Such Brazen Lies And Utter Fictions About Me That I Would Long Since Have Gone To My Grave If I Had Allowed Myself To Pay Attention To Them.

While You're Trying To Get Ahead, Remember To Get Aheart As Well. When Your Only Problem Is A Nail, All You Want Is A Decent Hammer. There Are Only Two Ways To Live Your Life: One Is As Though Nothing Is A Miracle; The Other Is As Though Everything Is A Miracle.

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

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.

For Me A Simple Message, To Think And Act With Courage, Independence And Imagination.

The Right To Search For Truth Implies Also A Duty.

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The Economic Anarchy Of Capitalist Society As It Exists Today Is, In My Opinion, The Real Source Of Evil.

It Is The Duty Of Every Citizen According To His Best Capacities To Give Validity To His Convictions In Political Affairs.

We Must Be Prepared To Make The Same Heroic Sacrifices For The Cause Of Peace That We Make Ungrudgingly For The Cause Of War.

My Only Genius Talent Is Inquisitiveness.

The Concept Of Marriage Must Have Been Thought Up By An Unimaginative Pig.

Most People See What Is, And Never See What Can Be.

The More I Learn, The More I Realize I Don't Know.

There Are Six-million Shots In The Game Of Pool.

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

I Prefer An Attitude Of Humility Corresponding To The Weakness Of Our Intellectual Understanding Of Nature And Of Our Own Being.

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

Nationalism Is The Measels Of Mankind.

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

It Is Easier To Denature Plutonium Than To Denature The Evil Spirit Of Man.

Be Kind To People Who Are Different From You.

Politics Is Far More Complicated Than Physics.

Unless Americans Come To Realize That They Are Not Stronger In The World Because They Have The Bomb But Weaker Because Of Their Vulnerability To Atomic Attack, They Are Not Likely To Conduct Their Policy At Lake Success [the United Nations] Or In Their Relations With Russia In A Spirit That Furthers The Arrival At An Understanding.

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