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One Had To Cram All This Stuff Into One's Mind For The Examinations, Whether One Liked It Or Not. This Coercion Had Such A Deterring Effect On Me That, After I Had Passed The Final Examination, I Found The Consideration Of Any Scientific Problems Distasteful To Me For An Entire Year.

-Albert Einstein

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One Had To Cram All This Stuff Into One's Mind For The Examinations, Whether One Liked It Or Not. This Coercion Had Such A Deterring Effect On Me That, After I Had Passed The Final Examination, I Found The Consideration Of Any Scientific Problems Distasteful To Me For An Entire Year.

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

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Vegetarian Food Leaves A Deep Impression On Our Nature. If The Whole World Adopts Vegetarianism, It Can Change The Destiny Of Humankind.

I Must Seem Like An Ostrich Who Forever Burries Its Head In The Relativistic Sands In Order Not To Face The Evil Quanta.

For The Most Part, I Do The Thing Which My Own Nature Prompts Me To Do. It Is Embarrassing To Earn So Much Respect And Love For It.

Love And Respect

The Value Of A College Education Is Not The Learning Of Many Facts But The Training Of The Mind To Think

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The Ability To Portray People In Still Life And In Motion Requires The Highest Measure Of Intuition And Talent.

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

Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Mathematics Deals Exclusively With The Relations Of Concepts To Each Other Without Consideration Of Their Relation To Experience.

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

What I See In Nature Is A Magnificent Structure That We Can Comprehend Only Very Imperfectly, And That Must Fill A Thinking Person With A Feeling Of Humility. This Is A Genuinely Religious Feeling That Has Nothing To Do With Mysticism.

The Woman Who Follows The Crowd Will Usually Go No Further Than The Crowd. The Woman Who Walks Alone Is Likely To Find Herself In Places No One Has Ever Been Before.

Since Our Inner Experiences Consist Of Reproductions, And Combinations Of Sensory Impressions, The Concept Of A Soul Without A Body Seem To Me To Be Empty And Devoid Of Meaning.

We Are Here For The Sake Of Others

We Cannot Despair Of Humanity, Since We Ourselves Are Human Beings.

I Consider It Important, Indeed Urgently Necessary, For Intellectual Workers To Get Together, Both To Protect Their Own Economic Status And, Also, Generally Speaking, To Secure Their Influence In The Political Field.

My Pacifism Is Not Based On Any Intellectual Theory But On A Deep Antipathy To Every Form Of Cruelty And Hatred.

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.

Learn From Yesterday, Live For Today.

The Future Is An Unknown, But A Somewhat Predictable Unknown. To Look To The Future We Must First Look Back Upon The Past. That Is Where The Seeds Of The Future Were Planted. I Never Think Of The Future. It Comes Soon Enough.

Failure Is Success In Progress

Out Of Clutter, Find Simplicity.

Mere Unbelief In A Personal God Is No Philosophy At All.

I Made One Great Mistake In My Life-when I Signed The Letter To President Roosevelt Recommending That Atom Bombs Be Made But There Was Some Justification-the Danger That The Germans Would Make Them.

That Little Word 'we' I Mistrust And Here's Why: No Man Of Another Can Say, 'he Is I.' Behind All Agreement Lies Something Amiss All Seeming Accord Cloaks A Lurking Abyss.

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Schools Need Not Preach Political Doctrine To Defend Democracy. If They Shape Men Capable Of Critical Thought And Trained In Social Attitudes, That Is All That Is Necessary.

Considered Logically This Concept Is Not Identical With The Totality Of Sense Impressions Referred To; But It Is An Arbitrary Creation Of The Human (or Animal) Mind.

The Intuitive Mind Is A Sacred Gift.

Gifts Of The Spirit

Faithful Servants

Most People Say That It Is The Intellect Which Makes A Great Scientist. They Are Wrong: It Is Character.

A Priori One Should Expect A Chaotic World Which Cannot Be Grasped By The Mind In Any Way... The Kind Of Order Created By Newton's Theory Of Gravitation...is Wholly Different. Even If The Axioms Of The Theory Are Proposed By Man, The Success Of Such A Project Presupposes A High Degree Of Ordering Of The Objective World.... That Is The "miracle" Which Is Being Constantly Reinforced As Our Knowledge Expands.

Politics Is Far More Complicated Than Physics.

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

Why Do People Speak Of Great Men In Terms Of Nationality? Great Germans, Great Englishmen? Goethe Always Protested Against Being Called A German Poet. Great Men Are Simply Men And Are Not To Be Considered From The Point Of View Of Nationality, Nor Should The Environment In Which They Were Brought Up Be Taken Into Account.

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