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In Quitting This Strange World He Has Once Again Preceded Me By A Little. That Doesn't Mean Anything. For Those Of Us Who Believe In Physics, This Separation Between Past, Present, And Future Is Only An Illusion, However Tenacious.

-Albert Einstein

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In Quitting This Strange

Albert Einstein

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In Quitting This Strange World He Has Once Again Preceded Me By A Little. That Doesn't Mean Anything. For Those Of Us Who Believe In Physics, This Separation Between Past, Present, And Future Is Only An Illusion, However Tenacious.

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

Convictions Can Best Be Supported With Experience And Clear Thinking.

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?

Paper Is To Write Things Down That We Need To Remember. Our Brains Are Used To Think.

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Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle. To Keep Your Balance, You Must Keep Moving.

War Cannot Be Humanized. It Can Only Be Abolished.

The Leaves And The Light Are One.

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A Theory Can Be Proved By Experiment; But No Path Leads From Experiment To The Birth Of A Theory.

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What A Sad Era When It Is Easier To Smash An Atom Than A Prejudice.

It Has Become Appallingly Obvious That Our Technology Has Exceeded Our Humanity.

God Always Takes The Simplest Way.

To The Master's Honor All Must Turn, Each In Its Track, Without A Sound, Forever Tracing Newton's Ground.

That A Man Can Take Pleasure In Marching In Formation To The Strains Of A Band Is Enough To Make Me Despise Him. He Has Only Been Given His Big Brain By Mistake; A Backbone Was All He Needed.

The Idle Man Does Not Know What It Is To Enjoy Rest.

A Great Thought Begins By Seeing Something Differently, With A Shift Of The Mind's Eye.

You Cannot Love A Car The Way You Love A Horse. The Horse Brings Out Human Feelings The Way Machines Cannot Do. Things Like Machines May Develop Or Neglect Certain Things In People ... Machines Make Our Life Impersonal And Stultify Certain Elements In Us And Create An Impersonal Environment.

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

You Are Right In Speaking Of The Moral Foundations Of Science, But You Cannot Turn Around And Speak Of The Scientific Foundations Of Morality.

I Never Failed In Mathematics. Before I Was Fifteen I Had Mastered Differential And Integral Calculus.

To My Mind, To Kill In War Is Not A Whit Better Than To Commit Ordinary Murder.

Creativity Is Contagious. Pass It On.

The Greatest Activity Of Which Man Is Capable: Opening Up Yet Another Fragment Of The Frontier Of Beauty.

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

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.

My Interest In Science Was Always Essentially Limited To The Study Of Principles.... That I Have Published So Little Is Due To This Same Circumstance, As The Great Need To Grasp Principles Has Caused Me To Spend Most Of My Time On Fruitless Pursuits.

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

In Music I Do Not Look For Logic. I Am Quite Intuitive On The Whole And Know No Theories. I Never Like A Work If I Cannot Intuitively Grasp Its Inner Unity (architecture).

The Universe Is Difficult To Comprehend Because It Is Obvious.

However We Select From Nature A Complex [of Phenomena] Using The Criterion Of Simplicity, In No Case Will Its Theoretical Treatment Turn Out To Be Forever Appropriate (sufficient).... I Do Not Doubt That The Day Will Come When [general Relativity], Too, Will Have To Yield To Another One, For Reasons Which At Present We Do Not Yet Surmise. I Believe That This Process Of Deepening Theory Has No Limits.

I Am Not An Atheist. I Do Not Know If I Can Define Myself As A Pantheist. The Problem Involved Is Too Vast For Our Limited Minds.

There Is An Atmosphere Of Well-sounding Oratory That Likes To Attach Itself To Dress Clothes. Away With It!

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

God Is A Scientist, Not A Magician.

Nothing Will Benefit Human Health And Increase The Chances For Survival Of Life On Earth As Much As The Evolution To A Vegetarian Diet.

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By Academic Freedom I Understand The Right To Search For Truth And To Publish And Teach What One Holds To Be True. This Right Also Implies A Duty: One Must Not Conceal Any Part Of What One Has Recognized To Be True.

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If You Can't Explain What You Are Doing To A Nine-year-old, Then Either You Still Don't Understand It Very Well, Or It's Not All That Worthwile In The First Place.

Often In Evolutionary Processes A Species Must Adapt To New Conditions In Order To Survive. Today The Atomic Bomb Has Altered Profoundly The Nature Of The World As We Know It, And The Human Race Consequently Finds Itself In A New Habitat To Which It Must Adapt Its Thinking.

Strange Is Our Situation Here On Earth. Each Of Us Comes For A Short Visit, Not Knowing Why, Yet Sometimes Seeming To Divine A Purpose.

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

Lasting Harmony With A Woman (was) An Undertaking In Which I Twice Failed Rather Disgracefully.

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The Theory Must Not Contradict Empirical Facts.

But Could Not Our Situation Be Compared To One Of A Menacing Epidemic? People Are Unable To View This Situation In Its True Light, For Their Eyes Are Blinded By Passion. General Fear And Anxiety Create Hatred And Aggressiveness. The Adaptation To Warlike Aims And Activities Has Corrupted The Mentality Of Man; As A Result, Intelligent, Objective And Humane Thinking Has Hardly Any Effect And Is Even Suspected And Persecuted As Unpatriotic.

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

Common Sense Is The Collection Of Prejudices Acquired By Age Eighteen.

I Admit That Thoughts Influence The Body.

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If Someone Feels That He Has Never Made A Mistake In His Life, It Only Means That He Has Never Tried Anything New In His Life.

In Living Through This Great Epoch, It Is Difficult To Reconcile Oneself To The Fact That One Belongs To That Mad, Degenerate Species That Boasts Of Its Free Will. How I Wish That Somewhere There Existed An Island For Those Who Are Wise And Of Good Will. In Such A Place Even I Should Be An Ardent Patriot!

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.

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

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

Engineering Is Not Only Study Of 45 Subjects But It Is Moral Studies Of Intellectual Life. Make Things As Simple As Possible..but Not Simpler.

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The Only Race I Know Is The Human One.

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A Scientist Is A Mimosa When He Himself Has Made A Mistake, And A Roaring Lion When He Discovers A Mistake Of Others.

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 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.

I Don't Try To Imagine A Personal God; It Suffices To Stand In Awe At The Structure Of The World, Insofar As It Allows Our Inadequate Senses To Appreciate It.

It Is A Very Grave Mistake To Think That The Enjoyment Of Seeing And Searching Can Be Promoted By Means Of Coercion And A Sense Of Duty. To The Contrary, I Believe It Would Be Possible To Rob Even A Healthy Beast Of Prey Of Its Voraciousness, If It Were Possible, With The Aid Of A Whip, To Force The Beast To Devour Continuously, Even When Not Hungry.

The Solitude And Peace Of Mind Are Serving Me Quite Well, Not The Least Of Which Is Due To The Excellent And Truly Enjoyable Relationship With My Cousin; Its Stability Will Be Guaranteed By The Avoidance Of Marriage.

The Individual Feels The Vanity Of Human Desires And Aims, And The Nobility And Marvelous Order Which Are Revealed In Nature And In The World Of Thought. He Feels The Individual Destiny As An Imprisonment And Seeks To Experience The Totality Of Existence As A Unity Full Of Significance.

Certainly There Are Things Worth Believing. I Believe In The Brotherhood Of Man And The Uniqueness Of The Individual. But If You Ask Me To Prove What I Believe, I Can't. You Know Them To Be True But You Could Spend A Whole Lifetime Without Being Able To Prove Them. The Mind Can Proceed Only So Far Upon What It Knows And Can Prove. There Comes A Point Where The Mind Takes A Leap—call It Intuition Or What You Will—and Comes Out Upon A Higher Plane Of Knowledge, But Can Never Prove How It Got There. All Great Discoveries Have Involved Such A Leap.

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The Idea Of A Personal God Is An Anthropological Concept Which I Am Unable To Take Seriously.

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Honestly, I Cannot Understand What People Mean When They Talk About The Freedom Of The Human Will. I Have A Feeling, For Instance, That I Will Something Or Other; But What Relation This Has With Freedom I Cannot Understand At All. I Feel That I Will To Light My Pipe And I Do It; But How Can I Connect This Up With The Idea Of Freedom? What Is Behind The Act Of Willing To Light The Pipe ? Another Act Of Willing?

Nuclear Power Is One Hell Of A Way To Boil Water

The Physicist's Greatest Tool Is His Wastebasket.

I Do Not Believe That A Man Should Be Restrained In His Daily Actions By Being Afraid Of Punishment After Death Or That He Should Do Things Only Because In This Way He Will Be Rewarded After He Dies. This Does Not Make Sense. The Proper Guidance During The Life Of A Man Should Be The Weight That He Puts Upon Ethics And The Amount Of Consideration That He Has For Others.

If I Were Not A Jew I Would Be A Quaker.

One Reason Why Mathematics Enjoys Special Esteem,above All Other Sciences,is That Its Laws Are Absolutely Certain And Indisputable,while Those Of All Other Sciences Are To Some Extent Debatable And In Constant Danger Of Being Overthrown By Newly Discovered Facts.

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On Quantum Theory I Use Up More Brain Grease (rough Translation Of German Idiom) Than On Relativity.

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Let Me Tell You What I Look Like: Pale Face, Long Hair, And A Tiny Start Of A Paunch. In Addition, An Awkward Gait, And A Cigar In The Mouth And A Pen In Pocket Or Hand.

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People Like You And I, Though Mortal Of Course Like Everyone Else, Do Not Grow Old No Matter How Long We Live.

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He Who Has Never Been Deceived By A Lie Does Not Know The Meaning Of Bliss.

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

What Is Essential In The Life Of A Man Of My Kind Is What He Thinks And How He Thinks, And Not What He Does Or Suffers.

The Content Of Scientific Theory Itself Offers No Moral Foundation For The Personal Conduct Of Life.

The Hardest Thing To Understand In The World Is The Income Tax.

Is It Not A Terrible Thing To Be Forced By Society To Do Things Which All Of Us As Individuals Regard As Abominable Crimes?

The Future Is Not A Gift-it Is An Achievement.

Members Of Legislative Bodies Are Selected By Political Parties, Largely Financed Or Otherwise Influenced By Private Capitalists Who, For All Practical Purposes, Separate The Electorate From The Legislature. The Consequence Is That The Representatives Of The People Do Not In Fact Sufficiently Protect The Interests Of The Underprivileged Sections Of The Population.

The Most Beautiful Experience In The World Is The Experience Of The Mysterious.

It Is This Mythical, Or Rather Symbolic, Content Of The Religious Traditions Which Is Likely To Come Into Conflict With Science. This Occurs Whenever This Religious Stock Of Ideas Contains Dogmatically Fixed Statements On Subjects Which Belong In The Domain Of Science.

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

Three Great Forces Rule The World: Stupidity, Fear And Greed.

As A Human Being, One Has Been Endowed With Just Enough Intelligence To Be Able To See Clearly How Utterly Inadequate That Intelligence Is When Confronted With What Exists.

Where The World Ceases To Be The Scene Of Our Personal Hopes And Wishes, Where We Face It As Free Beings Admiring, Asking And Observing, There We Enter The Realm Of Art And Science.

Everything Has Changed Except The Way Man Thinks (when The Hydrogen Bomb Was Exploded)

Formal Symbolic Representation Of Qualitative Entities Is Doomed To Its Rightful Place Of Minor Significance In A World Where Flowers And Beautiful Women Abound.

Older Men Start Wars, But Younger Men Fight Them.

When The Solution Is Simple, God Is Answering.

What I See In Nature Is A Grand Design That We Can Understand Only Imperfectly, One With Which A Responsible Person Must Look At With Humility.

Artificial Intellegance Is No Match For Natural Stupidity

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Human Beings, Vegetables, Or Cosmic Dust, We All Dance To A Mysterious Tune, Intoned In The Distance By An Invisible Piper.

The Greatest Scientists Are Artists As Well.

Intelligent Life On Other Planets? I'm Not Even Sure There Is On Earth!

We Dance For Laughter, We Dance For Tears, We Dance For Madness, We Dance For Fears, We Dance For Hopes, We Dance For Screams, We Are The Dancers, We Create The Dreams.

Failing Isn't Bad When You Learn What Not To Do.

It Is Difficult To Say What Truth Is, But Sometimes It Is So Easy To Recognize A Falsehood.

I Believe That I Have Really Found The Relationship Between Gravitation And Electricity, Assuming That The Miller Experiments Are Based On A Fundamental Error. Otherwise, The Whole Relativity Theory Collapses Like A House Of Cards.

But The Creative Principle Resides In Mathematics. In A Certain Sense, Therefore, I Hold True That Pure Thought Can Grasp Reality, As The Ancients Dreamed.

How Do I Work? I Grope.

The Significant Problems We Have Cannot Be Solved At The Same Level Of Thinking With Which We Created Them.

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.

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

Never Memorize What You Can Look Up In A Book.

Coincidence Is God's Way Of Remaining Anonymous.

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

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

There Is Not The Slightest Indication That Nuclear Energy Will Ever Be Obtainable. It Would Mean That The Atom Would Have To Be Shattered At Will.

[i] Must Seek In The Stars That Which Was Denied [to Me] On Earth.

Fear Or Stupidity Has Always Been The Basis Of Most Human Actions.

The Flag Is A Symbol Of The Fact That Man Is Still A Herd Animal.

If You Want To Know The Future, Look At The Past.

Assumptions Are Made And Most Assumptions Are Wrong.

I Have No Extraordinary Ability. I'm Simply An Inquisitive Individual.

The Only Mistake In Life Is The Lesson Not Learned.

... Knowledge Must Continually Be Renewed By Ceaseless Effort, If It Is Not To Be Lost. It Resembles A Statue Of Marble Which Stands In The Desert And Is Continually Threatened With Burial By The Shifting Sand. The Hands Of Service Must Ever Be At Work, In Order That The Marble Continue To Lastingly Shine In The Sun. To These Serving Hands Mine Shall Also Belong.

I Received Your Letter Of June 10th. I Have Never Talked To A Jesuit Priest In My Life And I Am Astonished By The Audacity To Tell Such Lies About Me. From The Viewpoint Of A Jesuit Priest I Am, Of Course, And Have Always Been An Atheist.

When A Blind Beetle Crawls Over The Surface Of A Globe He Doesn't Notice That The Track He Has Covered Is Curved. I Was Lucky Enough To Have Spotted It.

The True Sign Of Intelligence Is Not Knowledge But Imagination.

Understanding Physics Is Child's Play When Compared To Understanding Child's Play.

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.

Your Fervent Wishes Can Only Find Fulfillment If You Succeed In Attaining Love And Understanding Of Men, And Animals, And Plants, And Stars, So That Every Joy Becomes Your Joy And Every Pain Your Pain.

The Measure Of Intelligence Is The Ability To Change.

Were I Wrong, One Professor Would Have Been Enough.

If You Cannot Explain It Simply, You Do Not Understand It Enough.

You Can Never Solve A Problem On The Level On Which It Was Created.

The Basic Laws Of The Universe Are Simple, But Because Our Senses Are Limited, We Can’t Grasp Them. There Is A Pattern In Creation.

One May Say The Eternal Mystery Of The World Is Its Comprehensibility.

When Men Are Engaged In War And Conquest, The Tools Of Science Become As Dangerous As A Razor In The Hands Of A Child Of Three. We Must Not Condemn Man Because His Inventiveness And Patient Conquest Of The Forces Of Nature Are Being Exploited For False And Destructive Purposes. Rather, We Should Remember That The Fate Of Mankind Hinges Entirely Upon Man’s Moral Development.

Physics Is Essentially An Intuitive And Concrete Science. Mathematics Is Only A Means For Expressing The Laws That Govern Phenomena.

Incompetence Is The True Crisis.

I Don't Need To Know Everything, I Just Need To Know Where To Find It, When I Need It

The Religion Of The Future Will Be A Cosmic Religion. The Religion Which Based On Experience, Which Refuses Dogmatic. If There's Any Religion That Would Cope The Scientific Needs It Will Be Buddhism.

Keep Fighting Until The Last Buzzer Sounds.

[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.]

That Deep Emotional Conviction Of The Presence Of A Superior Reasoning Power, Which Is Revealed In The Incomprehensible Universe, Forms My Idea Of God.

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

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