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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.

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Scientific Research Is Based

Albert Einstein

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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.

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Following The Crowd

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The Aim (of Education) Must Be The Training Of Independently Acting And Thinking Individuals Who, However, See In The Service To The Community Their Highest Life Problem.

Knowledge Is Dead; The School, However, Serves The Living.

No One But A Theorist Believes His Theory; Everyone Puts Faith In A Laboratory Result But The Experimenter Himself.

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

Thought Provoking

In Quitting This Strange World He Has Once Again Preceded Me By A Little. That Doesn't Mean Anything. For Those Of Us Who Believe In Physics, This Separation Between Past, Present, And Future Is Only An Illusion, However Tenacious.

Hope That Justice Will Be Done To Those Brave Men Who Stood Up For Their Convictions.

Man Would Indeeded Be In A Poor Way If He Had To Be Restrained By Fear Of Punishment And Hope Of Reward After Death.

I Am Content In My Later Years. I Have Kept My Good Humor And Take Neither Myself Nor The Next Person Seriously.

May The Conscience And The Common Sense Of The Peoples Be Awakened, So That We May Reach A New Stage In The Life Of Nations, Where People Will Look Back On War As An Incomprehensible Aberration Of Their Forefathers!

Nothing Truly Valuable Arises From Ambition Or From A Mere Sense Of Duty; It Stems Rather From Love And Devotion Towards Men And Towards Objective Things.

The Most Important Human Endeavor Is The Striving For Morality In Our Actions. Our Inner Balance And Even Our Very Existence Depend On It. Only Morality In Our Actions Can Give Beauty And Dignity To Life.

Concern For Man Himself Must Always Constitute The Chief Objective Of All Technological Effort

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