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There Is, Fortunately, A Minority Composed Of Those Who Recognize Early In Their Lives That The Most Beautiful And Satisfying Experiences Open To Humankind Are Not Derived From The Outside, But Are Bound Up With The Development Of The Individual's Own Feeling, Thinking And Acting. The Genuine Artists, Investigators And Thinkers Have Always Been Persons Of This Kind. However Inconspicuously The Life Of These Individuals Runs Its Course, None The Less The Fruits Of Their Endeavors Are The Most Valuable Contributions Which One Generation Can Make To Its Successors.

-Albert Einstein

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There Is, Fortunately, A

Albert Einstein

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There Is, Fortunately, A Minority Composed Of Those Who Recognize Early In Their Lives That The Most Beautiful And Satisfying Experiences Open To Humankind Are Not Derived From The Outside, But Are Bound Up With The Development Of The Individual's Own Feeling, Thinking And Acting. The Genuine Artists, Investigators And Thinkers Have Always Been Persons Of This Kind. However Inconspicuously The Life Of These Individuals Runs Its Course, None The Less The Fruits Of Their Endeavors Are The Most Valuable Contributions Which One Generation Can Make To Its Successors.

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A Permanent Peace Cannot Be Prepared By Threats But Only By The Honest Attempt To Create A Mutual Trust. However Strong National Armaments May Be, They Do Not Create Military Security For Any Nation Nor Do They Guarantee The Maintenance Of Peace.

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The Important Thing Is Not To Stop Questioning. Curiosity Has Its Own Reason For Existing. One Cannot Help But Be In Awe When He Contemplates The Mysteries Of Eternity, Of Life, Of The Marvelous Structure Of Reality. It Is Enough If One Tries Merely To Comprehend A Little Of This Mystery Every Day. Never Lose A Holy Curiosity.

You Have To Learn The Rules Of The Game. And Then You Have To Play Better Than Anyone Else.

The Faster You Go, The Shorter You Are.

A Knowledge Of The Existence Of Something We Cannot Penetrate, Of The Manifestations Of The Profoundest Reason And The Most Radiant Beauty - It Is This Knowledge And This Emotion That Constitute The Truly Religious Attitude; In This Sense, And In This Alone, I Am A Deeply Religious Man.

The Bible Is A Collection Of Honorable, But Primitive Legends Which Are Still Nevertheless Pretty Childish.

How Can Cosmic Religious Feeling Be Communicated From One Person To Another, If It Can Give Rise To No Definite Notion Of A God And No Theology? 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 Receptive To It.

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But Then, After All, We Are All Alike, For We Are All Derived From The Monkey.

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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?

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Imagination Is The Language Of The Soul. Pay Attention To Your Imagination And You Will Discover All You Need To Be Fulfilled.

I Recently Discussed With An Intelligent And Well-disposed Man The Threat Of Another War, Which In My Opinion Would Seriously Endanger The Existence Of Mankind, And I Remarked That Only A Supranational Organization Would Offer Protection From That Danger. Thereupon My Visitor, Very Calmly And Coolly, Said To Me: "why Are You So Deeply Opposed To The Disappearance Of The Human Race?".

But Science Can Only Be Created By Those Who Are Thoroughly Imbued With The Aspiration Toward Truth And Understanding. This Source Of Feeling, However, Springs From The Sphere Of Religion. To This There Also Belongs The Faith In The Possibility That The Regulations Valid For The World Of Existence Are Rational, That Is, Comprehensible To Reason. I Cannot Conceive Of A Genuine Scientist Without That Profound Faith. The Situation May Be Expressed By An Image: Science Without Religion Is Lame, Religion Without Science Is Blind.

If I Am Right The Germans Will Say I Was A German, And The French Will Say I Was A Jew; If I Am Wrong The Germans Will Say I Was A Jew And The French Will Say I Was A German.

I Think That Only Daring Speculation Can Lead Us Further And Not Accumulation Of Facts.

Our Situation On This Earth Seems Strange. Every One Of Us Appears Here Involuntarily And Uninvited For A Short Stay, Without Knowing The Whys And The Wherefore. In Our Daily Lives We Only Feel That Man Is Here For The Sake Of Others, For Those Whom We Love And For Many Other Beings Whose Fate Is Connected With Our Own. I Am Often Worried At The Thought That My Life Is Based To Such A Large Extent On The Work Of My Fellow Human Beings And I Am Aware Of My Great Indebtedness To Them.

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If The Workers Of This World, Men And Women, Decide Not To Manufacture And Transport Ammunition, It Would End War For All Time. We Must Do That. Dedicate Our Lives To Drying Up The Source Of War; Ammunition Factories.

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Anyone Who Doesn't Take Truth Seriously In Small Matters Cannot Be Trusted In Large Ones Either.

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There Are Moments When One Feels Free From One's Own Identification With Human Limitations And Inadequacies. At Such Moments One Imagines That One Stands On Some Spot Of A Small Planet, Gazing In Amazement At The Cold Yet Profoundly Moving Beauty Of The Eternal, The Unfathomable; Life And Death Flow Into One, And There Is Neither Evolution Nor Destiny; Only Being.

There Is No Salvation For Civilization, Or Even The Human Race, Other Than The Creation Of A World Government.

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The Important Things Are Always Simple.

He Who Finds Though That Lets Us Penetrate Even A Little Deeper Into The Eternal Mystery Of Nature Has Been Granted Great Grace. He Who, In Addition, Experiences The Recognition, Sympathy, And Help Of The Best Minds Of His Times, Had Been Given Almost More Happiness Than One Man Can Bear.

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The Aim Of Science Is, On The One Hand, As Complete A Comprehension As Possible Of The Connection Between Perceptible Experiences In Their Totality, And, On The Other Hand, The Achievement Of This Aim By Employing A Minimum Of Primary Concepts And Relations.

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If Men As Individuals Surrender To The Call Of Their Elementary Instincts, Avoiding Pain And Seeking Satisfaction Only For Their Own Selves, The Result For Them All Taken Together Must Be A State Of Insecurity, Of Fear, And Of Promiscuous Misery.

The Difference Between What The Most And The Least Learned People Know Is Inexpressibly Trivial In Relation To That Which Is Unknown.

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

With Fame I Become More And More Stupid, Which Of Course Is A Very Common Phenomenon.

Small Is The Number Of People Who See With Their Eyes And Think With Their Minds.

On The Left-hand Side Of The Field Equation We May Add The Fundamental Tensor Guv, Multiplied By A Universal Constant, -λ, At Present Unknown, Without Destroying The General Covariance.

More And More I Come To Value Charity And Love Of One's Fellow Being Above Everything Else...all Our Lauded Technological Progress-our Very Civilization-is Like The Axe In The Hand Of The Pathological Criminal.

I Have Yet To Meet A Single Person From Our Culture, No Matter What His Or Her Educational Background, Iq, And Specific Training, Who Had Powerful Transpersonal Experiences And Continues To Subscribe To The Materialistic Monism Of Western Science.

We Must Learn The Difficult Lesson That The Future Of Mankind Will Only Be Tolerable When Our Course, In World Affairs As In Others, Is Based Upon Justice And Law Rather Than The Threat Of Naked Power.

I Regard Class Differences As Contrary To Justice And, In The Last Resort, Based On Force.

Compound Interest Is The Eighth Wonder Of The World. He Who Understands It, Earns It ... He Who Doesn't ... Pays It.

Degeneracy Follows Every Autocratic System Of Violence, For Violence Inevitably Attracts Moral Inferiors. Time Has Proven That Illustrious Tyrants Are Succeeded By Scoundrels.

If I Were To Start Taking Care Of My Grooming, I Would No Longer Be My Own Self.

Coincidence Is God's Way Of Remaining Anonymous.

I Want To Gods Thoughts, The Rest Are Details.

If [quantum Theory] Is Correct, It Signifies The End Of Physics As A Science.

It Is High Time The Ideal Of Success Should Be Replaced With The Ideal Of Service.

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

The Concept Of Marriage Must Have Been Thought Up By An Unimaginative Pig.

I Have Never Obtained Any Ethical Values From My Scientific Work.

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

The State Was Made For Man, Not Man For State.

Bear In Mind That The Wonderful Things You Learn In Your Schools Are The Work Of Many Generations. All This Is Put In Your Hands As Your Inheritance In Order That You May Receive It, Honor It, Add To It, And One Day Faithfully Hand It On To Your Children.

Small Is The Number Of Them That See With Their Own Eyes And Feel With Their Own Hearts.

Experts Are Just Trained Dogs.

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

Gravitation Is Not Responsible For People Falling In Love.

Knowledge Of What Is Does Not Open The Door Directly To What Should Be.

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.

This Has Been Done Elegantly By Minkowski; But Chalk Is Cheaper Than Grey Matter, And We Will Do It As It Comes.

Communities Tend To Be Guided Less Than Individuals By Conscience And A Sense Of Responsibility. How Much Misery Does This Fact Cause Mankind! It Is The Source Of Wars And Every Kind Of Oppression, Which Fill The Earth With Pain, Sighs And Bitterness.

Happiness, As A Pursuit, Is Suitable Only For Pigs.

You Think You Have Troubles With Mathematics . . . I Assure You Mine Are Still Bigger.

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