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Nature Shows Us Only The Tail Of The Lion. But There Is No Doubt In My Mind That The Lion Belongs With It Even If He Cannot Reveal Himself To The Eye All At Once Because Of His Huge Dimension.

-Albert Einstein

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Nature Shows Us Only The Tail Of The Lion. But There Is No Doubt In My Mind That The Lion Belongs With It Even If He Cannot Reveal Himself To The Eye All At Once Because Of His Huge Dimension.

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A Clever Person Solves A Problem. A Wise Person Avoids It.

Science Is The Century-old Endeavor To Bring Together By Means Of Systematic Thought The Perceptible Phenomena Of This World Into As Thorough-going An Association As Possible.

I Am Enough Of An Artist To Draw Freely Upon My Imagination.

Even On The Most Solemn Occasions I Got Away Without Wearing Socks And Hid That Lack Of Civilization In High Boots

The Magic Of Compounding Interest Is Truly The Eighth Wonder Of The World!

[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 Wish To Do Something Great And Wonderful, But I Must Start By Doing The Little Things Like They Were Great And Wonderful

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

Non-cooperation In Military Matters Should Be An Essential Moral Principle For All True Scientists.

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The Concept Of Marriage Must Have Been Thought Up By An Unimaginative Pig.

I Should Very Much Like To Remain In The Darkness Of Not Having Been Analyzed.

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The Mind That Opens To A New Idea Never Returns To Its Original Size

Man Owes His Strength In The Struggle For Existence To The Fact That He Is A Social Animal.

That Is The Way To Learn The Most, That When You Are Doing Something With Such Enjoyment That You Don't Notice That The Time Passes.

The Pursuit Of Truth And Beauty Is A Sphere Of Activity In Which We Are Permitted To Remain Children All Our Lives.

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Be A Loner. That Gives You Time To Wonder.

There Two Things That Are Infinite, Human Stupidity And The Universe, I Don't Know About The Universe

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

The Value Of A Man Should Be Seen In What He Gives And Not In What He Is Able To Receive.

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

Learning Is The Beginning Of Wealth. Searching And Learning Is Where The Miracle Process All Begins. The Great Breakthrough In Your Life Comes When You Realize It That You Can Learn Anything You Need To Learn To Accomplish Any Goal That You Set For Yourself. This Means There Are No Limits On What You Can Be, Have Or Do.

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One Cannot Learn So Well As By Experiencing It Oneself.

If God Has Created The World, His Primary Worry Was Certainly Not To Make Its Understanding Easy For Us

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I Wouldn't Want To Live If I Did Not Have My Work. In Any Case, It's Good That I'm Already Old And Personally Don't Have To Count On A Prolonged Future.

Concerning Matter, We Have Been All Wrong. What We Have Called Matter Is Energy, Whose Vibration Has Been So Lowered As To Be Perceptible To The Senses. There Is No Matter.

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

The Facts, Although Interesting, Are Irrelevant.

Every Day I Remind Myself That My Inner And Outer Life Are Based On The Labors Of Other Men, Living And Dead, And That I Must Exert Myself In Order To Give In The Same Measure As I Have Received And Am Still Receiving.

Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality.

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

Thinking Is Hard Work; That's Why So Few Do It.

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A Photograph Never Grows Old. You And I Change, People Change All Through The Months And Years But A Photograph Always Remains The Same. How Nice To Look At A Photograph Of Mother Or Father Taken Many Years Ago. You See Them As You Remember Them. But As People Live On, They Change Completely. That Is Why I Think A Photograph Can Be Kind.

A Thought That Sometimes Makes Me Hazy: Am I - Or Are The Others Crazy?

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Anger Dwells Only In The Bosom Of Fools.

The Most Important Thing Is To Not Stop Questioning.

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Scarcely Anyone Who Comprehends This Theory Can Escape Its Magic.

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

We Must Not Conceal From Ourselves That No Improvement In The Present Depressing Situation Is Possible Without A Severe Struggle; For The Handful Of Those Who Are Really Determined To Do Something Is Minute In Comparison With The Mass Of The Lukewarm And The Misguided. And Those Who Have An Interest In Keeping The Machinery Of War Going Are A Very Powerful Body; They Will Stop At Nothing To Make Public Opinion Subservient To Their Murderous Ends.

The True Measure Of A Man Is The Degree To Which He Has Managed To Subjugate His Ego.

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Those Who Staying With The Wrong Reward,(eg. Stay In Comfort Zone, Etc.), Long Enough Will Get Problem.

If You Can't Explain It Simply, You Don't Understand It Well Enough.

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