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Our World Faces A Crisis As Yet Unperceived By Those Possessing Power To Make Great Decisions For Good Or Evil. The Unleashed Power Of The Atom Has Changed Everything Save Our Modes Of Thinking And We Thus Drift Toward Unparalleled Catastrophe.

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Our World Faces A Crisis As Yet Unperceived By Those Possessing Power To Make Great Decisions For Good Or Evil. The Unleashed Power Of The Atom Has Changed Everything Save Our Modes Of Thinking And We Thus Drift Toward Unparalleled Catastrophe.

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The Foundation Of Morality Should Not Be Made Dependent On Myth Nor Tied To Any Authority Lest Doubt About The Myth Or About The Legitimacy Of The Authority Imperil The Foundation Of Sound Judgment And Action.

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

The Mathematician Knows Some Things, No Doubt, But Not Those Things One Usually Wants To Get From Him.

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.

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

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.

I'm No More Intelligent Than The Next Guy. I'm Just More Curious.

I Never Said Half The Crap People Said I Did.

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Einstein Was Once Asked How Many Feet Are In A Mile. Einstein's Reply Was "i Don't Know, Why Should I Fill My Brain With Facts I Can Find In Two Minutes In Any Standard Reference Book?

Only Two Things Are Infinite, The Universe And Human Stupidity, And I'm Not Sure About The Former.

Analytics Will Never Tell You Everything You Want To Know.

Only In Mathematics And Physics Was I, Through Self-study, Far Beyond The School Curriculum, And Also With Regard To Philosophy As It Was Taught In The School Curriculum.

In The View Of Such Harmony In The Cosmos Which I, With My Limited Human Mind, Am Able To Recognize, There Are Yet People Who Says There Is No God. But What Makes Me Really Angry Is That They Quote Me For Support Of Such Views. (the Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, Page 214)

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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.

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