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The Fanatical Atheists Are Like Slaves Who Are Still Feeling The Weight Of Their Chains Which They Have Thrown Off After Hard Struggle. They Are Creatures Who—in Their Grudge Against Traditional Religion As The "opium Of The Masses"—cannot Hear The Music Of The Spheres.

-Albert Einstein

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The Fanatical Atheists Are

Albert Einstein

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The Fanatical Atheists Are Like Slaves Who Are Still Feeling The Weight Of Their Chains Which They Have Thrown Off After Hard Struggle. They Are Creatures Who—in Their Grudge Against Traditional Religion As The "opium Of The Masses"—cannot Hear The Music Of The Spheres.

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Hell! There Ain't No Rules Around Here! We Are Tryin' To Accomplish Somep'n!

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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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Condemnation Without Investigation Is The Height Of Ignorance

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God Casts The Die, Not The Dice.

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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.

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Nature Conceals Her Secrets Because She Is Sublime, Not Because She Is A Trickster.

You Can Never Solve A Problem With The Same Kind Of Thinking That Created The Problem In The First Place.

Whatever There Is Of God And Goodness In The Universe, It Must Work Itself Out And Express Itself Through Us. We Cannot Stand Aside And Let God Do It.

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

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People Will Not Disarm Step By Step; They Will Disarm At One Blow Or Not At All.

It Is Not So Very Important For A Person To Learn Facts. For That He Does Not Really Need A College. He Can Learn Them From Books. The Value Of An Education In A Liberal Arts College Is Not Learning Of Many Facts But The Training Of The Mind To Think Something That Cannot Be Learned From Textbooks.

Fear Or Stupidity Has Always Been The Basis Of Most Human Actions.

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Out Yonder There Is This Huge World, Which Exists Independently Of Us Human Beings And Which Stands Before Us Like A Great, Eternal Riddle, At Least Partially Accessible To Our Inspection And Thinking

When We Are Working At Something, We Come Down From Our High Logical Horse And Sniff Around With Our Nose To The Ground. Then We Obliterate Our Traces In Order To Become More God-like.

Whether Or Not You Can Observe A Thing Depends Upon The Theory You Use. It Is The Theory Which Decides What Can Be Observed.

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The Secret To Creativity Is Knowing How To Hide Your Sources.

Everything Has Changed, Except Our Way Of Thinking.

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All My Life I Have Dealt With Objective Matters; Hence I Lack Both The Natural Aptitude And The Experience To Deal Properly With People And To Carry Out Official Functions.

The Life Of The Individual Has Meaning Only Insofar As It Aids In Making The Life Of Every Living Thing Nobler And More Beautiful. Life Is Sacred, That Is To Say, It Is The Supreme Value, To Which All Other Values Are Subordinate.

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The Ideals Which Have Always Shone Before Me And Filled Me With The Joy Of Living Are Goodness, Beauty, And Truth. To Make A Goal Of Comfort Or Happiness Has Never Appealed To Me; A System Of Ethics Built On This Basis Would Be Sufficient Only For A Herd Of Cattle.

Science Is A Wonderful Thing If One Does Not Have To Earn One's Living At It. One Should Earn One's Living By Work Of Which One Is Sure One Is Capable. Only When We Do Not Have To Be Accountable To Anybody Can We Find Joy In Scientific Endeavor.

Each Possession I Own Is But A Stone Around My Neck.

In Any Conflict Between Humanity And Technology, Humanity Will Win.

Even Trivial Events Demonstrate Strong Devotion To The Universe And Small Concern For Ego.

No One Must Think That Newton’s Great Creation Can Be Overthrown In Any Real Sense By This [theory Of Relativity] Or By Any Other Theory. His Clear And Wide Ideas Will For Ever Retain Their Significance As The Foundation On Which Our Modern Conceptions Of Physics Have Been Built.

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Please Explain The Problem To Me Slowly, As I Do Not Understand Things Quickly.

It Is Only Men Who Are Free, Who Create The Inventions And Intellectual Works Which To Us Moderns Make Life Worth While.

We Can't Solve Today's Problems With The Mentality That Created Them.

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

Matter Is Real To My Senses, But They Aren't Trustworthy. If Galileo Or Copernicus Had Accepted What They Saw, They Would Never Have Discovered The Movement Of The Earth And Planets.

Earth Is The Insane Asylum Of The Universe.

The War Is Won, But The Peace Is Not.

It Is Harder To Crack Prejudice Than An Atom.

The World Is Not Threatened By Evil People, But By Those Who Allow Evil To Take Place.

A True Genius Admits That He/she Knows Nothing.

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It Would Be Better If You Began To Teach Others Only After You Yourself Have Learned Something.

There Could Be No Greater Calamity Than A Permanent Discord Between Us And The Arab People. Despite The Great Wrong That Has Been Done Us, We Must Strive For A Just And Lasting Compromise With The Arab People Let Us Recall That In Former Times No People Lived In Greater Friendship With Us Than The Ancestors Of These Arabs.

Genius Simply Cannot Be Reduced To A Set Of Rules For Anyone To Follow.

Nothing That I Can Do Or Say Will Change The Structure Of The Universe. But Maybe, By Raising My Voice, I Can Help The Greatest Of All Causes — Good Will Among Men And Peace On Earth.

In My View, It Is The Most Important Function Of Art And Science To Awaken This Feeling And Keep It Alive In Those Who Are Capable Of It.

Racism Is America's Greatest Disease, Racism Is A Disease Of The White Man.

Every Age Has Its Beautiful Moments.

Feeling And Longing Are The Motive Forces Behind All Human Endeavor And Human Creations.

We Must Be Prepared To Make The Same Heroic Sacrifices For The Cause Of Peace That We Make Ungrudgingly For The Cause Of War.

Live Life To The Fullest. You Have To Color Outside The Lines Once In A While If You Want To Make Your Life A Masterpiece. Laugh Some Every Day. Keep Growing, Keep Dreaming, Keep Following Your Heart. The Important Thing Is Not To Stop Questioning.

I Advocate World Government Because I Am Convinced That There Is No Other Possible Way Of Eliminating The Most Terrible Danger In Which Man Has Ever Found Himself. The Objective Of Avoiding Total Destruction Must Have Priority Over Any Other Objective.

Bureaucracy Is The Death Of All Sound Work.

Government Bureaucracy

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

We Can Invent As Many Theories We Like, And Any One Of Them Can Be Made To Fit The Facts. But That Theory Is Always Preferred Which Makes The Fewest Number Of Assumptions.

Everything What's Inspiring Has Been Created By One Who Could Work In Freedom

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The Bigotry Of The Nonbeliever Is For Me Nearly As Funny As The Bigotry Of The Believer.

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

Never Memorize What You Can Look Up In A Book.

Energy Cannot Be Created Or Destroyed, It Can Only Be Changed From One Form To Another.

Each Act Is An Island In Time, To Be Judged On Its Own.

If People Are Good Because They Fear Punishment, And Hope For Reward, Then We Are A Sorry Lot Indeed.

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