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The Grand Aim Of All Science Is To Cover The Greatest Number Of Empirical Facts By Logical Deduction From The Smallest Number Of Hypotheses Or Axioms.

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The Grand Aim Of All Science Is To Cover The Greatest Number Of Empirical Facts By Logical Deduction From The Smallest Number Of Hypotheses Or Axioms.

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

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It Is Only To The Individual That A Soul Is Given. And The High Destiny Of The Individual Is To Serve Rather Than To Rule, Or To Impose Himself In Any Other Way.

Unless The Cause Of Peace Based On Law Gathers Behind It The Force And Zeal Of A Religion, It Hardly Can Hope To Succeed.

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When I Examine Myself And My Methods Of Thought, I Come To The Conclusion That The Gift Of Fantasy Has Meant More To Me Than Any Talent For Abstract, Positive Knowledge.

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Subtle Is The Lord. Malicious, He Is Not.

Stand Still. The Trees Ahead And Bush Beside You Are Not Lost.

The Normal Objective Of My Thought Affords No Insight Into The Dark Places Of Human Will And Feeling.

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Necessity Is The Mother Of All Invention.

The Illusion That We Are Separate From One Another Is An Optical Delusion Of Our Consciousness.

It Is Impossible To Get Anywhere Without Sinning Against Reason.

Knowledge Exists In Two Forms - Lifeless, Stored In Books, And Alive, In The Consciousness Of Men. The Second Form Of Existence Is After All The Essential One; The First, Indispensable As It May Be, Occupies Only An Inferior Position.

Three Rules Of Work: Out Of Clutter Find Simplicity. From Discord Find Harmony. In The Middle Of Difficulty Lies Opportunity.

What Interests Me Most Is Whether God Could Have Made The World Differently.

Belief In An External World Independent Of The Perceiving Subject Is The Basis Of All Natural Science.

A Successful Man Is He Who Receives A Great Deal From His Fellow Men, Usually Incomparably More Than Corresponds To His Service To Them. The Value Of A Man, However, Should Be Seen In What He Gives And Not In What He Is Able To Receive.

Life Is Sacred, That Is To Say, It Is The Supreme Value, To Which All Other Values Are Subordinate.

The Individual Feels The Futility Of Human Desires And Aims And The Sublimity And Marvelous Order Which Reveal Themselves Both In Nature And In The World Of Thought.

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. To Make This A Living Force And Bring It To Clear Consciousness Is Perhaps The Foremost Task Of Education. 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.

Reading, After A Certain Age, Diverts The Mind Too Much From Its Creative Pursuits. Any Man Who Reads Too Much And Uses His Own Brain Too Little Falls Into Lazy Habits Of Thinking.

Mysticism Is In Fact The Only Criticism People Cannot Level Against My Theory.

I Like To Experience The Universe As One Harmonious Whole. Every Cell Has Life. Matter, Too, Has Life; It Is Energy Solidified. Our Bodies Are Like Prisons, And I Look Forward To Be Free, But I Don't Speculate On What Will Happen To Me. I Live Here Now, And My Responsibility Is In This World Now.

The Definition Of Genius Is Taking The Complex And Making It Simple.

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.

I Know Not With What Weapons World War Iii Will Be Fought, But World War Iv Will Be Fought With Sticks And Stones.

I Should Much Rather See A Reasonable Agreement With Arabs Based Upon Living Together Than The Creation Of A Jewish State.

Earnestly I Must Exert Myself In Order To Return As Much As I Have Received.

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Most Of The Fundamental Ideas Of Science Are Essentially Simple, And May, As A Rule, Be Expressed In A Language Comprehensible To Everyone.

My Feeling Is Religious Insofar As I Am Imbued With The Consciousness Of The Insufficiency Of The Human Mind To Understand More Deeply The Harmony Of The Universe Which We Try To Formulate As "laws Of Nature".

I Am An Adherent Of The Ideal Of Democracy, Although I Well Know The Weaknesses Of The Democratic Form Of Government. Social Equality And Economic Protection Of The Individual Appeared To Me Always As The Important Communal Aims Of The State. Although I Am A Typical Loner In Daily Life, My Consciousness Of Belonging To The Invisible Community Of Those Who Strive For Truth, Beauty, And Justice Has Preserved Me From Feeling Isolated.

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If My Theory Of Relativity Is Proven Successful, Germany Will Claim Me As A German And France Will Declare Me A Citizen Of The World. Should My Theory Prove Untrue, France Will Say That I Am A German, And Germany Will Declare That I Am A Jew.

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Pure Mathematics Is, In Its Way, The Poetry Of Logical Ideas.

Try First To Be A Man Of Value; Success Will Follow.

Thanks To My Fortunate Idea Of Introducing The Relativity Principle Into Physics, You (and Others) Now Enormously Overrate My Scientific Abilities, To The Point Where This Makes Me Quite Uncomfortable.

Every Thoughtful, Well-meaning And Conscientious Human Being Should Assume In Time Of Peace, The Solemn And Unconditional Obligation Not To Participate In Any War, For Any Reason Or To Lend Support Of Any Kind, Whether Direct Or Indirect.

I Do Not Share The Crusading Spirit Of The Professional Atheist Whose Fervor Is Mostly Due To A Painful Act Of Liberation From The Fetters Of Religious Indoctrination Received In Youth. I Prefer An Attitude Of Humility Corresponding To The Weakness Of Our Intellectual Understanding Of Nature And Of Our Own Being.

The History Of Scientific And Technical Discovery Teaches Us That The Human Race Is Poor In Independent And Creative Imagination. Even When The External And Scientific Requirements For The Birth Of An Idea Have Long Been There, It Generally Needs An External Stimulus To Make It Actually Happen; Man Has, So To Speak, To Stumble Right Up Against The Thing Before The Idea Comes.

I Believe That A Simple And Unassuming Manner Of Life Is Best For Everyone, Best Both For The Body And The Mind.

I Sometimes Ask Myself How It Came About That I Was The One To Develop The Theory Of Relativity. The Reason, I Think, Is That A Normal Adult Never Stops To Think About Problems Of Space And Time. These Are Things Which He Has Thought About As A Child. Bu T My Intellectual Development Was Retarded,as A Result Of Which I Began To Wonder About Space And Time Only When I Had Already Grown Up.

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Nothing Truly Valuable Can Be Achieved Except By The Unselfish Cooperation Of Many Individuals.

Curiosity Is A Delicate Little Plant That, Aside From Stimulation, Stands Mainly In Need Of Freedom.

The Ideals Which Have Always Shone Before Me And Filled Me With The Joy Of Living Are Goodness, Beauty, And Truth.

Failure Is Only Postponed Success As Long As Courage 'coaches' Ambition.

Imagination Is Greater Than Knowledge.

Without "ethical Culture", There Is No Salvation For Humanity.

It Takes A Different Kind Of Thinking To Solve A Problem Than The Kind Of Thinking Which Produced The Problem.

Everybody Should Be Ashamed Who Uses The Wonders Of Science And Engineering Without Thinking And Having Mentally Realized Not More Of It Than A Cow Realizes Of The Botany Of The Plants Which It Eats With Pleasure.

The Pursuit Of Knowledge For Its Own Sake, An Almost Fanatical Love Of Justice And The Desire For Personal Independence -- These Are The Features Of The Jewish Tradition Which Make Me Thank My Stars That I Belong To It.

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While It Is True That An Inherently Free And Scrupulous Person May Be Destroyed, Such An Individual Can Never Be Enslaved Or Used As A Blind Tool.

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

I Think We Have To Safeguard Ourselves Against People Who Are A Menace To Others, Quite Apart From What May Have Motivated Their Deeds.

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.

Either Cs (coordinate System) Could Be Used With Equal Justification. The Two Sentences: The Sun Is At Rest And The Earth Moves, Or The Sun Moves And The Earth Is At Rest, Would Simply Mean Two Different Conventions Concerning Two Different Cs

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

Without The Sense Of Fellowship With Men Of Like Mind, Of Preoccupation With The Objective, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Research, Life Would Have Seemed To Me Empty.

The Goal Of Pacifism Is Possible Only Though A Supranational Organization. To Stand Unconditionally For This Cause Is The Criterion Of True Pacifism.

Creativity Is Seeing What Others See And Thinking What No One Else Has Ever Thought.

Time Is Relative; Its Only Worth Depends Upon What We Do As It Is Passing.

It's Not That I'm So Smart.

When The Number Of Factors Coming Into Play In A Phenomenological Complex Is Too Large Scientific Method In Most Cases Fails. One Need Only Think Of The Weather, In Which Case The Prediction Even For A Few Days Ahead Is Impossible. Nevertheless, No One Doubts That We Are Confronted With A Causal Connection Whose Causal Components Are In The Main Known To Us. Occurrences In This Domain Are Beyond The Reach Of Exact Prediction Because Of The Variety Of Factors In Operation, Not Because Of Any Lack Of Order In Nature.

A Theory Is The More Impressive The Greater The Simplicity Of Its Premises Is, The More Different Kinds Of Things It Relates, And The More Extended Is Its Area Of Applicability. Therefore The Deep Impression Which Classical Thermodynamics Made Upon Me. It Is The Only Physical Theory Of Universal Content Concerning Which I Am Convinced That Within The Framework Of The Applicability Of Its Basic Concepts, It Will Never Be Overthrown.

Something Deeply Hidden Had To Be Behind Things.

I Know Quite Certainly That I Myself Have No Special Talent; Curiosity, Obsession And Dogged Endurance, Combined With Self-criticism, Have Brought Me To My Ideas.

It Is Not So Important Where One Settles Down. The Best Thing Is To Follow Your Instincts Without Too Much Reflection.

Life Is A Preparation For The Future; And The Best Preparation For The Future Is To Live As If There Were None.

I Have Made The Bhagwad Gita As The Main Source Of My Inspiration And Guide For The Purpose Of Scientific Investigations And Formation Of My Theories.

One Thing I Have Learned In A Long Life: That All Our Science, Measured Against Reality, Is Primitive And Childlike -- And Yet It Is The Most Precious Thing We Have.

Conceptions Without Experience Are Void; Experience Without Conceptions Is Blind.

It Would Be My Greatest Sadness To See Zionists (jews) Do To Palestinian Arabs Much Of What Nazis Did To Jews.

It's Very Depressing To Live In A Time Where It's Easier To Break An Atom Than A Prejudice.

If You Can't Explain Something Simply, You Don't Know Enough About It.

Once You Can Accept The Universe As Matter Expanding Into Nothing That Is Something, Wearing Stripes With Plaid Comes Easy.

Indeed, It Is Not Intellect, But Intuition Which Advances Humanity. Intuition Tells Man His Purpose In This Life.

The Point Is To Develop The Childlike Inclination For Play And The Childlike Desire For Recognition And To Guide The Child Over To Important Fields For Society. Such A School Demands From The Teacher That He Be A Kind Of Artist In His Province.

It Is Easy To Say Something New, If All Senses One Will Eschew. But Hardly Ever Is Found, That The New Is Also Sound.

Brief Is This Existence, As A Visit In A Strange House. The Path To Be Pursued Is Poorly Lit By A Flickering Consciousness.

Humankind's Desire For Peace Can Be Realized Only By The Creation Of A World Government.

World Government

People Start Their Lives At Last When They Are Able To Live For Something Other Than Themselves.

Imagination Rules The Earth

Playfullness Is The Essential Feature Of Productive Thought.

...behind All The Discernible Laws And Connections, There Remains Something Subtle, Intangible And Inexplicable.

I Have Survived Two Wars, Two Wives And Hitler.

... Knowledge Must Continually Be Renewed By Ceaseless Effort, If It Is Not To Be Lost. It Resembles A Statue Of Marble Which Stands In The Desert And Is Continually Threatened With Burial By The Shifting Sand. The Hands Of Service Must Ever Be At Work, In Order That The Marble Continue To Lastingly Shine In The Sun. To These Serving Hands Mine Shall Also Belong.

There Is No Scientific Antidote, Only Education. You've Got To Change The Way People Think. I Am Not Interested In Disarmament Talks Between Nations . . . What I Want To Do Is To Disarm The Mind. After That, Everything Else Will Automatically Follow. The Ultimate Weapon For Such Mental Disarmament Is International Education.

My Relationship To The Jewish People Has Become My Strongest Human Bond, Ever Since I Became Fully Aware Of Our Precarious Situation Among The Nations Of The World.

I Am An Absolute Pacifist...it Is An Instinctive Feeling. It Is A Feeling That Possesses Me, Because The Murder Of Men Is Disgusting.

Measured Objectively, What A Man Can Wrest From Truth By Passionate Striving Is Utterly Infinitesimal. But The Striving Frees Us From The Bonds Of The Self And Makes Us Comrades Of Those Who Are The Best And The Greatest.

The Most Important Thing Is To Not Stop Questioning.

When I Was Young, All I Wanted And Expected From Life Was To Sit Quietly In Some Corner Doing My Work Without The Public Paying Attention To Me. And Now See What Has Become Of Me.

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