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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. If There Is Any Such Concept As A God, It Is A Subtle Spirit, Not An Image Of A Man That So Many Have Fixed In Their Minds. In Essence, My Religion Consists Of A Humble Admiration For This Illimitable Superior Spirit That Reveals Itself In The Slight Details That We Are Able To Perceive With Our Frail And Feeble Minds.

-Albert Einstein

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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. If There Is Any Such Concept As A God, It Is A Subtle Spirit, Not An Image Of A Man That So Many Have Fixed In Their Minds. In Essence, My Religion Consists Of A Humble Admiration For This Illimitable Superior Spirit That Reveals Itself In The Slight Details That We Are Able To Perceive With Our Frail And Feeble Minds.

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Striving For Social Justice Is The Most Valuable Thing To Do In Life.

Everybody Felt His Superiority, But Nobody Felt Oppressed By It. Though He Had No Illusions About People And Human Affairs, He Was Full Of Kindness Toward Everybody And Everything. Never Did He Give The Impression Of Domineering, Always Of Serving And Helping. He Was Extremely Conscientious, Without Allowing Anything To Assume Undue Importance; A Subtle Humor Guarded Him, Which Was Reflected In His Eyes And In His Smile.

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

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.

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Insofar As Mathematics Is True, It Does Not Describe The Real World. Insofar As It Describes The Real World, It Is Not True.

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You Can't Solve Problems With The Same Thinking That Caused Them.

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I Am A Determinist. As Such, I Do Not Believe In Free Will. The Jews Believe In Free Will. They Believe That Man Shapes His Own Life. I Reject That Doctrine Philosophically. In That Respect I Am Not A Jew.

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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Many Of The Things You Can Count, Don't Count. Many Of The Things You Can't Count, Really Count.

The Family That Prays Together...is Brainwashing Their Children.

The Only Thing We Can Be Certain Of In This Life Is That We Can Be Certain Of Nothing.

Strive Not To Be A Success, But Rather To Be Of Value.

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.

Anyone Who Doesn't Take Truth Seriously In Small Matters Cannot Be Trusted In Large Ones Either.

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In Theory, Theory And Practice Are The Same. In Practice, They Are Not.

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Every Thoughtful, Well-meaning And Conscientious Human Being Should Assume In Time Of Peace, The Solemn And Unconditional Obligation Not To Participate In Any War, For Any Reason Or To Lend Support Of Any Kind, Whether Direct Or Indirect.

Human Beings, In Their Thinking, Feeling And Acting Are Not Free Agents But Are As Causally Bound As The Stars In Their Motion.

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.

Do You Believe In Immortality? No, And One Life Is Enough For Me.

This Has Been Done Elegantly By Minkowski; But Chalk Is Cheaper Than Grey Matter, And We Will Do It As It Comes.

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