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In The Temple Of Science Are Many Mansions, And Various Indeed Are They That Dwell Therein And The Motives That Have Led Them Thither. Many Take To Science Out Of A Joyful Sense Of Superior Intellectual Power; Science Is Their Own Special Sport To Which They Look For Vivid Experience And The Satisfaction Of Ambition; Many Others Are To Be Found In The Temple Who Have Offered The Products Of Their Brains On This Altar For Purely Utilitarian Purposes.

-Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein

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In The Temple Of Science Are Many Mansions, And Various Indeed Are They That Dwell Therein And The Motives That Have Led Them Thither. Many Take To Science Out Of A Joyful Sense Of Superior Intellectual Power; Science Is Their Own Special Sport To Which They Look For Vivid Experience And The Satisfaction Of Ambition; Many Others Are To Be Found In The Temple Who Have Offered The Products Of Their Brains On This Altar For Purely Utilitarian Purposes.

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

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Persistence Is The Most Powerful Force On Earth, It Can Move Mountains.

Coincidence Is God's Way Of Remaining Anonymous.

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Everything That The Human Race Has Done And Thought Is Concerned With The Satisfaction Of Deeply Felt Needs And The Assuagement Of Pain. One Has To Keep This Constantly In Mind If One Wishes To Understand Spiritual Movements And Their Development. Feeling And Longing Are The Motive Force Behind All Human Endeavor And Human Creation, In However Exalted A Guise The Latter May Present Themselves To Us.

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I Learned Many Years Ago Never To Waste Time Trying To Convince My Colleagues.

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

When I Have One Week To Solve A Seemingly Impossible Problem, I Spend Six Days Defining The Problem. Then, The Solution Becomes Obvious.

The Only Mistake In Life Is The Lesson Not Learned.

The Restriction Of Knowledge To An Elite Group Destroys The Spirit Of The Society And Leads To Its Intellectual Impoverishment.

The Only Sure Way To Avoid Making Mistakes Is To Have No New Ideas.

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.

We Scientists, Whose Tragic Destination Has Been To Help In Making The Methods Of Annihilation More Gruesome And More Effective, Must Consider It Our Solemn And Transcendent Duty To Do All In Our Power In Preventing These Weapons From Being Used For The Brutal Purpose For Which They Were Invented.

Evil Does Not Exist Sir, Or At Least It Does Not Exist Unto Itself. Evil Is Simply The Absence Of God. It Is Just Like Darkness And Cold, A Word That Man Has Created To Describe The Absence Of God. God Did Not Create Evil. Evil Is Not Like Faith, Or Love That Exist Just As Does Light And Heat. Evil Is The Result Of What Happens When Man Does Not Have God's Love Present In His Heart. It's Like The Cold That Comes When There Is No Heat Or The Darkness That Comes When There Is No Light.

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A Theory Is Something Nobody Believes, Except The Person Who Made It. An Experiment Is Something Everybody Believes, Except The Person Who Made It.

Anonymity Is No Excuse For Stupidity.

Necessity Is The Mother Of All Invention.

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

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Political Leaders Or Governments Owe Their Position Partly To Force And Partly To Popular Election. They Cannot Be Regarded As Representative Of Best Elements, Morally Or Intellectually, In Their Respective Nations.

It Occurred To Me By Intuition, And Music Was The Driving Force Behind That Intuition. My Discovery Was The Result Of Musical Perception.

Concepts That Have Proven Useful In Ordering Things Easily Achieve Such Authority Over Us That We Forget Their Earthly Origins And Accept Them As Unalterable Givens.

It Is Only To The Individual That A Soul Is Given. And The High Destiny Of The Individual Is To Serve Rather Than To Rule, Or To Impose Himself In Any Other Way.

Raffiniert Ist Der Herr Gott, Aber Boshaft Ist Er Nicht. God Is Subtle, But He Is Not Malicious.

Nothing Happens Unless Something Moves.

I'd Rather Be An Optimist And A Fool Than A Pessimist And Right.

Thought Provoking

Let Every Man Judge According To His Own Standards, By What He Has Himself Read, Not By What Others Tell Him.

Matter Is Spirit Reduced To Point Of Visibility.

I Have Firmly Decided To Bite The Dust With A Minimum Of Medical Assistance When My Time Comes, And Up To Then To Sin To My Wicked Heart's Content.

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I Want To Know God's Thoughts.

As I Have Said So Many Times, God Doesn't Play Dice With The World.

It Would Be Foolish To Despise Tradition. But With Our Growing Self-consciousness And Increasing Intelligence We Must Begin To Control Tradition And Assume A Critical Attitude Toward It, If Human Relations Are Ever To Change For The Better.

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Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Knowledge Is Limited. Imagination Encircles The World.

Scarcely Anyone Who Comprehends This Theory Can Escape Its Magic.

The Laws Of Gravity Cannot Be Held Responcible For People Falling In Love.

Falling In Love

Men Like Henry George [ The Pioneer Of Land Value Taxation] Are Rare, Unfortunately. One Cannot Imagine A More Beautiful Combination Of Intellectual Keenness, Artistic Form, And Fervent Love Of Justice.

People Start Their Lives At Last When They Are Able To Live For Something Other Than Themselves.

Whether Or Not You Can Observe A Thing Depends Upon The Theory You Use. It Is The Theory Which Decides What Can Be Observed.

Never Memorize What You Can Look Up In A Book.

If I Had Foreseen Hiroshima And Nagasaki, I Would Have Torn Up My Formula In 1905.

Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Don't Do Anything That Goes Against Your Conscience, Even If Your Country Says So.

The Physicists Say That I Am A Mathematician, And The Mathematicians Say That I Am A Physicist. I Am A Completely Isolated Man And Though Everybody Knows Me, There Are Very Few People Who Really Know Me.

Compounding Is The 8th Wonder Of The World.

Wonder Of The World

The Most Aggravating Thing About The Younger Generation Is That I No Longer Belong To It.

Younger Generation

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.

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

Not All Things Worth Counting Are Countable And Not All Things That Count Are Worth Counting.

The Solution To This Problem Lies In The Heart Of Mankind.

Since 99.362% Of Women Love Mustache Rides, It Seems Only A Fool Would Have A Bare Upper Lip.

I Soon Learned To Scent Out That Which Was Able To Lead To Fundamentals And To Turn Aside From Everything Else, From The Multitude Of Things Which Clutter Up The Mind And Divert It From The Essential.

Everyday Is An Oportunity To Make A New Happy Ending.

Now To The Term 'relativity Theory.' I Admit That It Is Unfortunate, And Has Given Occasion To Philosophical Misunderstandings.

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

A Ship Is Always Safe At The Shore - But That Is Not What It Is Built For.

Earnestly I Must Exert Myself In Order To Return As Much As I Have Received.

I Know Little About Nature And Hardly Anything About Men.

Everything What's Inspiring Has Been Created By One Who Could Work In Freedom

Life Is A Journey

In A Sailboat I Become Oblivious To Everything Else In The World.

Everyone Likes Me, Yet Nobody Understands Me.

Nobody Understands Me

Were I Wrong, One Professor Would Have Been Enough.

If People Would Only Talk About What They Understood, Earth Would Be A Very Quiet Place.

Everything Is Determined, The Beginning As Well As The End, By Forces Over Which We Have No Control. It Is Determined For The Insect, As Well As For The Star. Human Beings, Vegetables, Or Cosmic Dust, We All Dance To A Mysterious Tune, Intoned In The Distance By An Invisible Piper.

Condemnation Without Investigation Is The Height Of Ignorance

My Scientific Work Is Motivated By An Irresistible Longing To Understand The Secrets Of Nature Not By Other Feelings.

An Autocratic System Of Coercion, In My Opinion, Soon Degenerates. For Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality, And I Believe It To Be An Invariable Rule That Tyrants Of Genius Are Succeeded By Scoundrels. For This Reason I Have Always Been Passionately Opposed To Systems Such As We See In Italy And Russia To-day.

How Was I Able To Live Alone Before, My Little Everything? Without You I Lack Self-confidence, Passion For Work, And Enjoyment Of Life--in Short, Without You, My Life Is No Life. [written To His Wife, Mileva]

Self Confidence

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.

I Believe That We Don't Need To Worry About What Happens After This Life, As Long As We Do Our Duty Here-to Love And To Serve.

I Do Not Play Games. There Is Not Time For It. When I Get Through With Work, I Don't Want Anything That Requires The Working Of The Mind.

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

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. For Knowledge Is Limited To All We Now Know And Understand, While Imagination Embraces The Entire World, And All There Ever Will Be To Know And Understand.

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

Insanity: Doing The Same Thing Over And Over Again And Expecting Different Results.

I Was Supposed To Choose Apractical Profession, But This Was Simply Unbearable To Me.

So Long As There Are Men, There Will Be Wars.

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.

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.

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