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If The Believers Of The Present-day Religions Would Earnestly Try To Think And Act In The Spirit Of The Founders Of These Religions Then No Hostility On The Basis Of Religion Would Exist Among The Followers Of The Different Faiths. Even The Conflicts And The Realm Of Religion Would Be Exposed As Insignificant.

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If The Believers Of The Present-day Religions Would Earnestly Try To Think And Act In The Spirit Of The Founders Of These Religions Then No Hostility On The Basis Of Religion Would Exist Among The Followers Of The Different Faiths. Even The Conflicts And The Realm Of Religion Would Be Exposed As Insignificant.

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Human Beings Are Not Condemned, Because Of Their Biological Constitution, To Annihilate Each Other Or To Be At The Mercy Of A Cruel, Self-inflicted Fate.

Without The Sense Of Fellowship With Men Of Like Mind, Of Preoccupation With The Objective, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Research, Life Would Have Seemed To Me Empty.

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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.

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It Is The Theory Which Decides What We Can Observe

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Common Sense Is Nothing More Than A Deposit Of Prejudices Laid Down By The Mind Before You Reach Eighteen.

Only A Monomaniac Gets Anything Done.

I Don't Teach My Students, I Provide The Circumstances In Which They Can Learn.

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

[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.]

One Should Guard Against Preaching To Young People Success In The Customary Form As The Main Aim In Life. The Most Important Motive For Work In School And In Life Is Pleasure In Work, Pleasure In Its Result, And The Knowledge Of The Value Of The Result To The Community.

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Betterment Of Conditions The World Over Is Not Essentially Dependent On Scientific Knowledge But On The Fulfillment Of Human Traditions And Ideals.

One Ought To Be Ashamed To Make Use Of The Wonders Of Science Embodied In A Radio Set, The While Appreciating Them As Little As A Cow Appreciates The Botanic Marvels In The Plants She Munches.

I Have Second Thoughts. Maybe God Is Malicious. Told To Valentine Bargmann.

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Don't Listen To Their Words, Fix Your Attention On Their Deeds.

Peace Comes Through Understanding

I Have Little Patience With Scientists Who Take A Board Of Wood, Look For Its Thinnest Part, And Drill A Great Number Of Holes Where Drilling Is Easy.

I Do Not Believe In A Personal God And I Have Never Denied This But Have Expressed It Clearly.

If What Is Seen And Experienced Is Portrayed In The Language Of Logic, Then It Is Science. If It Is Communicated Through Forms Whose Connections Are Not Accessible To The Conscious Mind But Are Recognized Intuitively, Then It Is Art.

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

In My Relativity Theory I Set Up A Clock At Every Point In Space, But In Reality I Find It Difficult To Provide Even One Clock In My Room.

If Men As Individuals Surrender To The Call Of Their Elementary Instincts, Avoiding Pain And Seeking Satisfaction Only For Their Own Selves, The Result For Them All Taken Together Must Be A State Of Insecurity, Of Fear, And Of Promiscuous Misery.

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

Do Not Grow Old, No Matter How Long You Live. Never Cease To Stand Like Curious Children Before The Great Mystery Into Which We Were Born.

Nature Hides Her Secrets Because Of Her Essential Loftiness, But Not By Means Of Ruse.

Here's A Challenge: Study A Complicated Topic In Such Detail That Anyone Interested Can Nod Their Head And Understand As You Explain Specific Concepts Within The Topic.

The Wing Structure Of The Hornet, In Relation To Its Weight, Is Not Suitable For Flight, But He Does Not Know This And Flies Anyway.

The Finest Emotion Of Which We Are Capable Is The Mystic Emotion. Herein Lies The Germ Of All Art And All True Science. Anyone To Whom This Feeling Is Alien, Who Is No Longer Capable Of Wonderment And Lives In A State Of Fear Is A Dead Man.

But Without Deeper Reflection One Knows From Daily Life That One Exists For Other People--first Of All For Those Upon Whose Smiles And Well-being Our Own Happiness Is Wholly Dependent, And Then For The Many, Unknown To Us, To Whose Destinies We Are Bound By The Ties Of Sympathy.

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

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

The World Needs Heroes And It's Better They Be Harmless Men Like Me Than Villains Like Hitler

Hell! There Ain't No Rules Around Here! We Are Tryin' To Accomplish Somep'n!

Compounding Is The 8th Wonder Of The World.

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The Pursuit Of Knowledge Is More Valuable Than Its Possession.

A Ship Is Safe At Shore But It's Not Built For That.

The Leader Is One Who, Out Of The Clutter, Brings Simplicity... Out Of Discord, Harmony... And Out Of Difficulty, Opportunity.

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In Scientific Thinking Are Always Present Elements Of Poetry. Science And Music Requires A Thought Homogeneous.

Hunger, Love, Pain, Fear Are Some Of Those Inner Forces Which Rule The Individual's Instinct For Self Preservation.

Man Like Every Other Animal Is By Nature Indolent. If Nothing Spurs Him On, Then He Will Hardly Think, And Will Behave From Habit Like An Automaton.

I Believe That Gandhi’s Views Were The Most Enlightened Of All The Political Men In Our Time. We Should Strive To Do Things In His Spirit: Not To Use Violence In Fighting For Our Cause, But By Non-participation In Anything You Believe Is Evil.

Only The One Who Does Not Question Is Safe From Making A Mistake.

Making Mistakes

Show Me A Satisfied Man, And I'll Show You A Failure.

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If I Give You A Pfennig, You Will Be One Pfennig Richer And I'll Be One Pfennig Poorer. But If I Give You An Idea, You Will Have A New Idea, But I Shall Still Have It Too.

Our Task Is To Widen Our Circle Of Compassion To Include All Living Beings And All Of Nature

I Rarely Think In Words At All.

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

There Is No Scientific Antidote, Only Education. You've Got To Change The Way People Think. I Am Not Interested In Disarmament Talks Between Nations . . . What I Want To Do Is To Disarm The Mind. After That, Everything Else Will Automatically Follow. The Ultimate Weapon For Such Mental Disarmament Is International Education.

Balance In Large Measure Is Knowing The Things That Can Be Changed, Putting Them In Proper Perspective, And Recognizing The Things That Will Not Change."

The Analogy I Like Is This Imagine Being Able To See The World But You Are Deaf, And Then Suddenly Someone Gives You The Ability To Hear Things As Well - You Get An Extra Dimension Of Perception.

Everything Is Energy And That’s All There Is To It.

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.

Time Is Relative; Its Only Worth Depends Upon What We Do As It Is Passing.

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