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We Must Remember That We Do Not Observe Nature As It Actually Exists, But Nature Exposed To Our Methods Of Perception. The Theories Determine What We Can Or Cannot Observe...reality Is An Illusion, Albeit A Persistent One.

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We Must Remember That

Albert Einstein

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We Must Remember That We Do Not Observe Nature As It Actually Exists, But Nature Exposed To Our Methods Of Perception. The Theories Determine What We Can Or Cannot Observe...reality Is An Illusion, Albeit A Persistent One.

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If The Believers Of The Present-day Religions Would Earnestly Try To Think And Act In The Spirit Of The Founders Of These Religions Then No Hostility On The Basis Of Religion Would Exist Among The Followers Of The Different Faiths. Even The Conflicts And The Realm Of Religion Would Be Exposed As Insignificant.

A Woman Is Always Right. But Sometimes Confused Or May Be Misinformed Or Rude Or Stubborn Or Senseless Or Unchangeable About Her Opinions Or Even Down Right Stupid At Times But Never Wrong... She Is Always Right.

Mankind Must Give Up War In The Atomic Era. What Is At Stake Is The Life Or Death Of Humanity.

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The Whole Of Science Is Nothing More Than A Refinement Of Everyday Thinking.

Blind Belief In Authority Is The Greatest Enemy Of Truth.

The World As We Have Created It Is A Process Of Our Thinking. It Cannot Be Changed Without Changing Our Thinking.

Genius Is Making Complex Ideas Simple, Not Making Simple Ideas Complex

We Must Dedicate Our Lives To Drying Up The Source Of War: Ammunition Factories.

An Oligarchy Of Private Capital Cannot Be Effectively Checked Even By A Democratically Organized Political Society Because Under Existing Conditions, Private Capitalists Inevitably Control, Directly Or Indirectly, The Main Sources Of Information.

There's No Question Dolphins Are Smarter Than Humans As They Play More.

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

When I Was Young I Found Out That The Big Toe Always Ends Up Making A Hole In A Sock. So I Stopped Wearing Socks.

There Are Yet People Who Say There Is No God. But What Really Makes Me Angry Is That They Quote Me For The Support Of Such Views

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Difficult Questions

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I Now See The Necessity Of A Beginning.

The Idea Of A Being Who Interferes With The Sequence Of Events In The World Is Absolutely Impossible

The Future Is An Unknown, But A Somewhat Predictable Unknown. To Look To The Future We Must First Look Back Upon The Past. That Is Where The Seeds Of The Future Were Planted. I Never Think Of The Future. It Comes Soon Enough.

I Am Not A Positivist. Positivism States That What Cannot Be Observed Does Not Exist. This Conception Is Scientifically Indefensible, For It Is Impossible To Make Valid Affirmations Of What People 'can' Or 'cannot' Observe. One Would Have To Say 'only What We Observe Exists,' Which Is Obviously False.

The Economists Will Have To Revise Their Theories Of Value.

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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