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It Is Difficult Even To Attach A Precise Meaning To The Term "scientific Truth." So Different Is The Meaning Of The Word "truth" According To Whether We Are Dealing With A Fact Of Experience, A Mathematical Proposition Or A Scientific Theory. "religious Truth" Conveys Nothing Clear To Me At All.

-Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein

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It Is Difficult Even To Attach A Precise Meaning To The Term "scientific Truth." So Different Is The Meaning Of The Word "truth" According To Whether We Are Dealing With A Fact Of Experience, A Mathematical Proposition Or A Scientific Theory. "religious Truth" Conveys Nothing Clear To Me At All.

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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.

In Art, And In The Higher Ranges Of Science, There Is A Feeling Of Harmony Which Underlies All Endeavor. There Is No True Greatness In Art Or Science Without That Sense Of Harmony.

Germany Had The Misfortune Of Becoming Poisoned, First Because Of Plenty, And Then Because Of Want.

Never Underestimate Your Own Ignorance.

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

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This Is A Question Too Difficult For A Mathematician. It Should Be Asked Of A Philosopher"(when Asked About Completing His Income Tax Form)

I Very Rarely Think In Words At All. A Thought Comes, And I May Try To Express In Words Afterwards.

Non-comprehenders Are Often Distressed. Not You, Though-because With Good Humor You're Blessed. After All, Your Thoughts Went Like This, I Dare Say: It Was None But The Lord Who Made Us That Way.

Strenuous Intellectual Work And The Study Of God's Nature Are The Angels That Will Lead Me Through All The Troubles Of This Life With Consolation, Strength, And Uncompromising Rigor.

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

If I Would Follow Your Advice And Jesus Could Perceive It, He, As A Jewish Teacher, Surely Would Not Approve Of Such Behavior.

Know Where To Find The Information And How To Use It - That's The Secret Of Success.

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

For Any One Who Is Pervaded With The Sense Of Causal Law In All That Happens, Who Accepts In Real Earnest The Assumption Of Causality, The Idea Of A Being Who Interferes With The Sequence Of Events In The World Is Absolutely Impossible. Neither The Religion Of Fear Nor The Social-moral Religion Can Have Any Hold On Him.

Scientific Research Is Based On The Idea That Everything That Takes Place Is Determined By Laws Of Nature, And Therefore This Holds For The Action Of People. For This Reason, A Research Scientist Will Hardly Be Inclined To Believe That Events Could Be Influenced By A Prayer, I.e. By A Wish Addressed To A Supernatural Being.

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

Dear Habicht, / Such A Solemn Air Of Silence Has Descended Between Us That I Almost Feel As If I Am Committing A Sacrilege When I Break It Now With Some Inconsequential Babble... / What Are You Up To, You Frozen Whale, You Smoked, Dried, Canned Piece Of Soul...?

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.

I Came To America Because Of The Great, Great Freedom Which I Heard Existed In This Country. I Made A Mistake In Selecting America As A Land Of Freedom, A Mistake I Cannot Repair In The Balance Of My Lifetime.

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.

You Have To Learn The Rules Of The Game. And Then You Have To Play Better Than Anyone Else.

The Individual Must Not Merely Wait And Criticize, He Must Defend The Cause The Best He Can. The Fate Of The World Will Be Such As The World Deserves.

God Does Not Play Dice [with The Universe]. [ger., Gott Wurfelt Nicht.]

Although I Tried To Be Universal In Thought, I Am European By Instinct And Inclination.

Once We Accept Our Limits, We Go Beyond Them.

To Invent Something, All You Need Is Imagination And A Big Pile Of Junk.

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.

Small Is The Number Of People Who See With Their Eyes And Think With Their Minds.

To Act Intelligently In Human Affairs Is Only Possible If An Attempt Is Made To Understand The Thoughts, Motives, And Apprehension Of One's Opponent So Fully That One Can See The World Through Their Eyes.

The Power Of Imagination Is The Ultimate Creative Power.. No Doubt About That. While Knowledge Defines All We Currently Know And Understand.. Imagination Points To All We Might Yet Discover And Create. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Your Imagination Is Your Preview Of Life's Coming Attractions

My God May Not Be Your Idea Of God, But One Thing I Know Of My God He Makes Me A Humanitarian. I Am A Proud Jew Because We Gave The World The Bible And The Story Of Joseph.

The Great Moral Teachers Of Humanity Were In A Way Artistic Geniuses In The Art Of Living.

We Will Never Be Able To Solve The Problems Of Tomorrow With The Thinking Of Today

Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality, And I Believe It To Be An Invariable Rule That Tyrants Of Genius Are Succeeded By Scoundrels.

The Truth Isn't Always A Blinding Light. Sometimes It's A Deep And Dazzling Darkness, That Illuminates - And Burns - Just As Surely.

If Only I Had Known, I Should Have Become A Watchmaker.

It Is My Belief That The Problem Of Bringing Peace To The World On A Supranational Basis Will Be Solved Only By Employing Gandhi's Method On A Larger Scale.

There's A Genius In All Of Us.

I Asked Myself Childish Questions And Proceeded To Answer Them.

What You Can't Imagine, You Can't Discover.

Dancers Are The Athletes Of God.

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

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.

My Feeling Is Religious Insofar As I Am Imbued With The Consciousness Of The Insufficiency Of The Human Mind To Understand More Deeply The Harmony Of The Universe Which We Try To Formulate As "laws Of Nature".

Only A Monomaniac Gets Anything Done.

The Series Of Integers Is Obviously An Invention Of The Human Mind, A Self-created Tool Which Simplifies The Ordering Of Certain Sensory Experiences.

For Science Can Only Ascertain What Is, But Not What Should Be, And Outside Of Its Domain Value Judgments Of All Kinds Remain Necessary. Religion, On The Other Hand, Deals Only With Evaluations Of Human Thought And Action: It Cannot Justifiably Speak Of Facts And Relationships Between Facts.

Well, I Have Considered Myself To Be Very Fortunate In That I Have Been Able To Do Mostly Only That Which My Inner Self Told Me To Do... I Am Also Aware That I Do Receive Much Criticism From The Outside World For What I Do And Some People Actually Get Angry At Me. But This Does Not Really Touch Me Because I Feel That These People Do Not Live In He Same World As Do I.

If I Were To Remain Silent, I'd Be Guilty Of Complicity.

As Long As There Are Sovereign Nations Possessing Great Power, War Is Inevitable.

The Legs Are The Wheels Of Creativity.

Any Man Who Can Drive Safely While Kissing A Pretty Girl Is Simply Not Giving The Kiss The Attention It Deserves.

One Has To Realize That The Powerful Industrial Groups Concerned In The Manufacture Of Arms Are Doing Their Best In All Countries To Prevent The Peaceful Settlement Of International Disputes, And That Rulers Can Achieve This Great End Only If They Are Sure Of The Vigorous Support Of The Majority Of Their Peoples.

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O, Youth: Do You Know That Yours Is Not The First Generation To Yearn For A Life Full Of Beauty And Freedom?

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The Distinction Between The Past, Present And Future Is Only A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion.

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We Are Part Of The Whole Which We Call The Universe, But It Is An Optical Delusion Of Our Mind That We Think We Are Separate. This Separateness Is Like A Prison For Us. Our Job Is To Widen The Circle Of Our Compassion So We Feel Connected With All People And Situations.

Nothing Is More Destructive Of Respect For The Government And The Law Of The Land Than Passing Laws Which Cannot Be Enforced.

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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.

Our Schoolbooks Glorify War And Conceal Its Horrors. They Indoctrinate Children With Hatred. I Would Teach Peace Rather Than War, Love Rather Than Hate.

Not Until The Creation And Maintenance Of Decent Conditions Of Life For All Men Are Recognized And Accepted As A Common Obligation Of All Men And All Countries — Not Until Then Shall We, With A Certain Degree Of Justification, Be Able To Speak Of Mankind As Civilized.

The Ideals Which Have Lighted My Way, And Time After Time Have Given Me New Courage To Face Life Cheerfully, Have Been Kindness, Beauty, And Truth. Without The Sense Of Kinship With Men Of Like Mind, Without The Occupation With The Objective World, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Endeavors, Life Would Have Seemed To The Empty. The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts — Possessions, Outward Success, Luxury—have Always Seemed To Me Contemptible.

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I Do Know That Kind Fate Allowed Me To Find A Couple Of Nice Ideas After Many Years Of Feverish Labor.

It Would Of Course Be A Great Step Forward If We Succeeded In Combining The Gravitational Field And The Electromagnetic Field Into A Single Structure. Only So Could The Era In Theoretical Physics Inaugurated By Faraday And James Clerk Maxwell Be Brought To A Satisfactory Close.

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The Conflict That Exists Today Is No More Than An Old-style Struggle For Power, Once Again Presented To Mankind In Semireligious Trappings. The Difference Is That, This Time, The Development Of Atomic Power Has Imbued The Struggle With A Ghostly Character; For Both Parties Know And Admit That, Should The Quarrel Deteriorate Into Actual War, Mankind Is Doomed.

It Would Be Possible To Describe Everything Scientifically, But It Would Make No Sense; It Would Be Without Meaning, As If You Described A Beethoven Symphony As A Variation Of Wave Pressure.

I Myself Should Also Be Dead Already, But I Am Still Here.

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

History Is Littered With Examples Of Men Who Would Become Gods, But Only One Example Of God Becoming Man.

Nature Conceals Her Mystery By Her Essential Grandeur.

I Am A Deeply Religious Nonbeliever - This Is A Somewhat New Kind Of Religion.

I Like To Think The Moon Is There Even If I Am Not Looking At It.

If The Facts Don't Fit The Theory, Change The Facts.

Everything Has Changed, Except Our Way Of Thinking.

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The Development Of General Ability For Independent Thinking And Judgment Should Always Be Placed Foremost, Not The Acquisition Of Special Knowledge.

Dostoevsky Gives Me More Than Any Scientist, More Than Gauss.

Education Is Not Received. It Is Achieved.

A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing. So Is A Lot.

Only World Law Can Assure Progress Towards A Civilized Peaceful Community.

God Is A Scientist, Not A Magician.

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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.

Solitude Is Painful When One Is Young, But Delightful When One Is More Mature.

I Am Strongly Drawn To The Simple Life And Am Often Oppressed By The Feeling That I Am Engrossing An Unnecessary Amount Of The Labour Of My Fellow Men. I Regard Class Differences As Contrary To Justice And, In The Last Resort, Based On Force. I Also Consider That Plain Living Is Good For Everybody, Physically And Mentally.

I Never Think Of The Future. It Comes Soon Enough. When Visiting The U.s. From Germany For A Winter Academic Stay.

I Am Absolutely Convinced That No Wealth In The World Can Help Humanity Forward, Even In The Hands Of The Most Devoted Worker In This Cause. The Example Of Great And Pure Characters Is The Only Thing That Can Produce Fine Ideas And Noble Deeds. Money Only Appeals To Selfishness And Always Tempts Its Owners Irresistibly To Abuse It

Nothing In The World Makes People So Afraid As The Influence Of Independent-minded People.

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

From A Certain Temperature On, The Molecules 'condense' Without Attractive Forces; That Is, They Accumulate At Zero Velocity. The Theory Is Pretty, But Is There Some Truth In It.

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.

The Thinking That Got Us To Where We Are Is Not The Thinking That Will Get Us To Where We Want To Be.

If A Man Aspires Towards A Righteous Life, His First Act Of Abstinence Is From Injury To Animals.

A Man Should Look For What Is, And Not For What He Thinks Should Be.

Our Entire Much-praised Technological Progress, And Civilization Generally, Could Be Compared To An Axe In The Hand Of A Pathological Criminal.

Development Of Western Science Is Based On Two Great Achievements: The Invention Of The Formal Logical System (in Euclidean Geometry) By The Greek Philosophers, And The Discovery Of The Possibility To Find Out Causal Relationships By Systematic Experiment (during The Renaissance). In My Opinion, One Has Not To Be Astonished That The Chinese Sages Have Not Made These Steps. The Astonishing Thing Is That These Discoveries Were Made At All.

My Life Is A Simple Thing That Would Interest No One. It Is A Known Fact That I Was Born, And That Is All That Is Necessary.

A Successful Man Is He Who Receives A Great Deal From His Fellow Men, Usually Incomparably More Than Corresponds To His Service To Them. The Value Of A Man, However, Should Be Seen In What He Gives And Not In What He Is Able To Receive.

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.

In The Middle Of Difficulties Lie Opportunities.

Anyone Can Repeat A Technical Explanation They Read In A Text-book Or Blog Post.

Women Always Worry About Things That Men Forget; Men Always Worry About Things Women Remember.

Loving Is Not Just Looking At Each Other, It's Looking In The Same Direction. -antoine De Saint-exupéry, “you Are Blessed Doublee If You Are In Love” - Honeya “gravitation Is Not Responsible For People Falling In Love.

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Politics Is A Pendulum Whose Swings Between Anarchy And Tyranny Are Fueled By Perennially Rejuvenated Illusions.

The Most Important Thing Is To Not Stop Questioning.

You Can't Use An Old Map To Explore A New World.

Am I, Or The Others Crazy?

Sometimes One Pays Most For The Things One Gets For Nothing.

It Is Nothing Short Of A Miracle That Modern Methods Of Teaching Have Not Yet Entirely Strangled That Sacred Spirit Of Curiosity And Inquiry, For This Delicate Plant Needs Freedom No Less Than Stimulation.

The Thing Is, Not To Stop Questioning.

The Led Must Not Be Compelled; They Must Be Able To Choose Their Own Leader.

Not Until We Dare To Regard Ourselves As A Nation, Not Until We Respect Ourselves, Can We Gain The Esteem Of Others, Or Rather Only Then Will It Come Of Its Own Accord

You Believe In A God Who Plays Dice, I In Complete Law And Order.

Since I Have Introduced This Term I Had Always A Bad Conscience. . . . I Cannot Help To Feel It Strongly And I Am Unable To Believe That Such An Ugly Thing Should Be Realized In Nature.

The Scientific Theorist Is Not To Be Envied. For Nature, Or More Precisely Experiment, Is An Exorable And Not Very Friendly Judge Of His Work. It Never Says "yes" To A Theory. In The Most Favorable Cases It Says "maybe," And In The Great Majority Of Cases Simply "no." If An Experiment Agrees With A Theory It Means For The Latter "maybe," And If It Does Not Agree It Means "no." Probably Every Theory Will Some Day Experience Its "no" - Most Theories, Soon After Conception.

Man Can Find Meaning In Life Only Through Devoting Himself To Society.

Meaning Of Life

Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle. If You Want To Stay Balanced You've Got To Keep Moving Forward.

The Most Beautiful Gift Of Nature Is That It Gives One Pleasure To Look Around And Try To Comprehend What We See.

I Am Not More Gifted Than Anybody Else. I Am Just More Curious Than The Average Person And I Will Not Give Up A Problem Until I Have Found The Proper Solution.

The Difference Between Stupidity And Genius Is That Genius Has Its Limits.

A Person Who Never Made A Mistake Never Tried Anything New.

Unlimited Competition Leads To A Huge Waste Of Labor, And To That Crippling Of The Social Consciousness Of Individuals.

I Have No Special Talent. I Am Only Passionately Curious. The Important Thing Is To Not Stop Questioning. Curiousity Has Its Own Reason For Existing.

... 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.

Never Lose A Holy Curiosity.

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

Try Not To Become A Man Of Success, But A Man Of Value. Look Around At How People Want To Get More Out Of Life Than They Put In. A Man Of Value Will Give More Than He Receives. Be Creative, But Make Sure That What You Create Is Not A Curse For Mankind.

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.

Strange Is Our Situation Here Upon Earth.

Berlin Is The Place To Which I Am Most Closely Bound By Human And Scientific Ties.

If The Bee Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live. This Is Regarded As Probably Not A Quote By Einstein.

Whoever Undertakes To Set Himself Up As A Judge Of Truth And Knowledge Is Shipwrecked By The Laughter Of The Gods.

The Thinking It Took To Get Us Into This Mess Is Not The Same Thinking That Is Going To Get Us Out Of It.

It Is Impossible To Solve Significant Problems Using The Same Knowledge That Created Them.

Our Defense Is Not In Our Armaments, Nor In Science, Nor In Going Underground. Our Defense Is In Law And Order.

In Matters Of Truth And Justice, There Is No Difference Between Large And Small Problems, For Issues Concerning The Treatment Of People Are All The Same.

The Difference Between What The Most And The Least Learned People Know Is Inexpressibly Trivial In Relation To That Which Is Unknown.

It Takes A Different Kind Of Thinking To Solve A Problem Than The Kind Of Thinking Which Produced The Problem.

Yes, We Now Have To Divide Up Our Time Like That, Between Politics And Our Equations. But To Me Our Equations Are Far More Important, For Politics Are Only A Matter Of Present Concern. A Mathematical Equation Stands Forever.

"there's Been A Quantum Leap Technologically In Our Age, But Unless There's Another Quantum Leap In Human Relations, Unless We Learn To Live In A New Way Towards One Another, There Will Be A Catastrophe."

The Most Important Question A Person Can Ask Is, "is The Universe A Friendly Place?

No Problem Is Ever Solved In The Same Consciousness Thas Was Used To Create It.

Marriage Is But Slavery Made To Appear Civilized.

If A Is A Success In Life, Then A Equals X Plus Y Plus Z. Work Is X; Y Is Play; And Z Is Keeping Your Mouth Shut

The Only Race I Know Is The Human One.

How I Wish That Somewhere There Existed An Island For Those Who Are Wise And Of Good Will.

God May Be Subtle, But He Isn't Plain Mean.

If You're Not Sure Why You're Doing Something, You Can Never Do Enough Of It. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.

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.

God Almighty Does Not Throw Dice.

If One Asks The Whence Derives The Authority Of Fundamental Ends, Since They Cannot Be Stated And Justified Merely By Reason, One Can Only Answer: They Exist In A Healthy Society As Powerful Traditions, Which Act Upon The Conduct And Aspirations And Judgments Of The Individuals; They Are There, That Is, As Something Living, Without Its Being Necessary To Find Justification For Their Existence.

The Rest Of My Life (as A 39 Year Old) I Want To Reflect On What Life Is.

There Does, In Fact, Appear To Be A Plan.

It Is Just As Important To Make Knowledge Live And Keep It Alive As To Solve Specific Problems.

Every One Who Is Seriously Involved In The Pursuit Of Science Becomes Convinced That A Spirit Is Manifest In The Laws Of The Universe-a Spirit Vastly Superior To That Of Man, And One In The Face Of Which We With Our Modest Powers Must Feel Humble.

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?

... On Principle, It Is Quite Wrong To Try Founding A Theory On Observable Magnitudes Alone. In Reality The Very Opposite Happens. It Is The Theory Which Decides What We Can Observe.

Nothing Happens Until Something Moves. When Something Vibrates, The Electrons Of The Entire Universe Resonate With It. Everything Is Connected.

The Monotony And Solitude Of A Quiet Life Stimulates The Creative Mind.

What I Value In Life Is Quality Rather Then Quantity.

While You're Trying To Get Ahead, Remember To Get Aheart As Well. When Your Only Problem Is A Nail, All You Want Is A Decent Hammer. There Are Only Two Ways To Live Your Life: One Is As Though Nothing Is A Miracle; The Other Is As Though Everything Is A Miracle.

The Only Way To Escape The Corruptible Effect Of Praise Is To Go On Working.

Man Is, At One And The Same Time, A Solitary Being And A Social Being.

Genius Abhors Consensus Because When Consensus Is Reached, Thinking Stops. Stop Nodding Your Head.

[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.]

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.

Just Because You Believe In Something Does Not Mean That It Is True.

God Does Not Play Dice.

Look Deep Into Nature, And Then You Will Understand Everything Better.

When I Read The Bhagavad-gita And Reflect About How God Created This Universe Everything Else Seems So Superfluous

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I Have Never Obtained Any Ethical Values From My Scientific Work.

When U Knw Ur Limits U Go Byond Them

If I Were To Start Taking Care Of My Grooming, I Would No Longer Be My Own Self.

A Single Bomb Of This Type, Carried By Boat And Exploded In A Port, Might Very Well Destroy The Whole Port, Together With Some Of The Surrounding Territory.

If You Are Out To Describe The Truth, Leave Elegance To The Tailor. On Being Reproached That His Formula Of Gravitation Was Longer And More Cumbersome Than Newton's.

Measured Objectively, What A Man Can Wrest From Truth By Passionate Striving Is Utterly Infinitesimal. But The Striving Frees Us From The Bonds Of The Self And Makes Us Comrades Of Those Who Are The Best And The Greatest.

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