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In One's Youth Every Person And Every Event Appear To Be Unique. With Age One Becomes Much More Aware That Similar Events Recur. Later On, One Is Less Often Delighted Or Surprised, But Also Less Disappointed Than In Earlier Years.

-Albert Einstein

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In One's Youth Every

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In One's Youth Every Person And Every Event Appear To Be Unique. With Age One Becomes Much More Aware That Similar Events Recur. Later On, One Is Less Often Delighted Or Surprised, But Also Less Disappointed Than In Earlier Years.

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I Want To Know What God Thinks. The Rest Are Details.

Learn From Yesterday, Live For Today.

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The Work On Satisfactory Formulation Of Technical Patents Was A True Blessing For Me. It Compelled Me To Be Many-sided In Thought, And Also Offered Important Stimulation For Thought About Physics. Following A Practical Profession Is A Blessing For People Of My Type. Because The Academic Career Puts A Young Person In A Sort Of Compulsory Situation To Produce Scientific Papers In Impressive Quantity, A Temptation To Superficiality Arises That Only Strong Characters Are Able To Resist.

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.

In My Experience, The Best Creative Work Is Never Done When One Is Unhappy.

Whoever Is Careless With The Truth In Small Matters Cannot Be Trusted In Important Affairs.

Although Words Exist For The Most Part For The Transmission Of Ideas, There Are Some Which Produce Such Violent Disturbance In Our Feelings That The Role They Play In The Transmission Of Ideas Is Lost In The Background.

At Least Once A Day, Allow Yourself The Freedom To Think And Dream For Yourself.

Independent Thought

Knowledge Of What Is Does Not Open The Door Directly To What Should Be.

It Is Better To Believe Than To Disbelieve; In Doing You Bring Everything To The Realm Of Possibility.

I Must Be Willing To Give Up What I Am In Order To Become What I Will Be.

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.

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.

The Payment Of The Worker Is Not Determined By The Value Of His Product.

The Goal Of Pacifism Is Possible Only Though A Supranational Organization. To Stand Unconditionally For This Cause Is The Criterion Of True Pacifism.

The Greatest Scientists Are Artists As Well.

It Is Easy To Say Something New, If All Senses One Will Eschew. But Hardly Ever Is Found, That The New Is Also Sound.

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 Must Try, However, As Best I Can, Although I Am Very Conscious Of The Fact That Our Feelings And Strivings Are Often Contradictory And Obscure And That They Cannot Be Expressed In Easy And Simple Formulas.

Each Act Is An Island In Time, To Be Judged On Its Own.

I Want To Go When I Want. It Is Tasteless To Prolong Life Artificially. I Have Done My Share, It Is Time To Go. I Will Do It Elegantly.

One Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

To Be Sure, The Doctrine Of A Personal God Interfering With Natural Events Could Never Be Refuted, In The Real Sense, By Science, For This Doctrine Can Always Take Refuge In Those Domains In Which Scientific Knowledge Has Not Yet Been Able To Set Foot.

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

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

Following The Crowd

The Truth Of A Theory Can Never Be Proven, For One Never Knows If Future Experience Will Contradict Its Conclusions.

The Only Way To Escape The Personal Corruption Of Praise Is To Go On Working. One Is Tempted To Stop And Listen To It. The Only Thing Is To Turn Away And Go On Working. Work. There Is Nothing Else.

While I Am A Convinced Pacifist There Are Circumstances In Which I Believe The Use Of Force Is Appropriate - Namely, In The Face Of An Enemy Unconditionally Bent On Destroying Me And My People.

A Happy Man Is Too Satisfied With The Present To Dwell Too Much On The Future.

Everything You Can Imagine, Nature Has Already Created.

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The Constitution Only Guarantees The American People The Right To Pursue Happiness. You Have To Catch It Yourself. A Table, A Chair, A Bowl Of Fruit And A Violin; What Else Does A Man Need To Be Happy?

Human Knowledge And Skills Alone Cannot Lead Humanity To A Happy And Dignified Life. Humanity Has Every Reason To Place The Proclaimers Of High Moral Standards And Values Above The Discoverers Of Objective Truth.

Opening Your Mind

The Important Thing Is Not To Stop Questioning. Curiosity Has Its Own Reason For Existing. One Cannot Help But Be In Awe When He Contemplates The Mysteries Of Eternity, Of Life, Of The Marvelous Structure Of Reality. It Is Enough If One Tries Merely To Comprehend A Little Of This Mystery Every Day. Never Lose A Holy Curiosity.

The Man Who Regards His Own Life And That Of His Fellow-creatures As Meaningless Is Not Merely Unfortunate But Almost Disqualified For Life.

If I Had Known They Were Going To Do This, I Would Have Become A Shoemaker.

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

I Cannot Imagine A God Who Rewards And Punishes The Objects Of His Creation, Whose Purposes Are Modeled After Our Own -- A God, In Short, Who Is But A Reflection Of Human Frailty. Neither Can I Believe That The Individual Survives The Death Of His Body, Although Feeble Souls Harbor Such Thoughts Through Fear Or Ridiculous Egotisms.

Each Ray Of Light Moves In The Coordinate System 'at Rest' With The Definite, Constant Velocity V Independent Of Whether This Ray Of Light Is Emitted By A Body At Rest Or A Body In Motion.

[when Asked "dr. Einstein, Why Is It That When The Mind Of Man Has Stretched So Far As To Discover The Structure Of The Atom We Have Been Unable To Devise The Political Means To Keep The Atom From Destroying Us?"] That Is Simple, My Friend. It Is Because Politics Is More Difficult Than Physics.

If One Studies Too Zealously, One Easily Loses His Pants.

It Takes A Touch Of Genius - And A Lot Of Courage To Move In The Opposite Direction.

If We Have The Courage To Decide Ourselves For Peace We Will Have Peace.

Problems Cannot Be Solved By Thinking Within The Framework In Which The Problems Were Created.

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

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

Out Of The Clutter Find Simplicity

If You Want Different Results, Do Not Do The Same Things.

It Is My Conviction That Pure Mathematical Construction Enables Us To Discover The Concepts And The Laws Connecting Them, Which Gives Us The Key To The Understanding Of Nature ... In A Certain Sense, Therefore, I Hold It True That Pure Thought Can Grasp Reality, As The Ancients Dreamed.

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