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When I Was A Fairly Precocious Young Man I Became Thoroughly Impressed With The Futility Of The Hopes And Strivings That Chase Most Men Restlessly Through Life. Moreover, I Soon Discovered The Cruelty Of That Chase, Which In Those Years Was Much More Carefully Covered Up By Hypocrisy And Glittering Words Than Is The Case Today. By The Mere Existence Of His Stomach Everyone Was Condemned To Participate In That Chase. The Stomach Might Well Be Satisfied By Such Participation, But Not Man Insofar As He Is A Thinking And Feeling Being.

-Albert Einstein

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When I Was A Fairly Precocious Young Man I Became Thoroughly Impressed With The Futility Of The Hopes And Strivings That Chase Most Men Restlessly Through Life. Moreover, I Soon Discovered The Cruelty Of That Chase, Which In Those Years Was Much More Carefully Covered Up By Hypocrisy And Glittering Words Than Is The Case Today. By The Mere Existence Of His Stomach Everyone Was Condemned To Participate In That Chase. The Stomach Might Well Be Satisfied By Such Participation, But Not Man Insofar As He Is A Thinking And Feeling Being.

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A Thousand Things Can Prove Me Right And One Can Prove Me Wrong.

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Things You Can Get Access To, You Should Never Memorize.

It Should Be Possible To Explain The Laws Of Physics To A Barmaid.

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The School Has Always Been The Most Important Means Of Transferring The Wealth Of Tradition From One Generation To The Next. This Applies Today In An Even Higher Degree Than In Former Times, For Through Modern Development Of Economic Life, The Family

Since The Mathematicians Have Invaded The Theory Of Relativity I Do Not Understand It Myself Any More.

To Understand The World One Must Not Be Worrying About One's Self.

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I Find It Difficult To Believe That I Belong To Such An Idiotic, Rotten Species - The Species That Actually Boasts Of Its Freedom Of Will, Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All Of The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism.

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I Never Think Of The Future. It Comes Soon Enough. When Visiting The U.s. From Germany For A Winter Academic Stay.

Life Is A Great Tapestry. The Individual Is Only An Insignificant Thread In An Immense And Miraculous Pattern.

It Has Become Appallingly Obvious That Our Technology Has Exceeded Our Humanity.

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

The Most Fundamental Question We Can Ever Ask Ourselves Is Whether Or Not The Universe We Live In Is Friendly Or Hostile.

It Is Difficult To Say What Truth Is, But Sometimes It Is So Easy To Recognize A Falsehood.

Thinking Is To Man What Flying Is To Birds. Don’t Follow The Example Of A Chicken When You Could Be A Lark.

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Understanding Physics Is Child's Play When Compared To Understanding Child's Play.

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Student Is Not A Container You Have To Fill But A Torch You Have To Light Up.

In The Teaching Of Geography And History A Sympathetic Understanding (should) Be Fostered For The Characteristics Of The Different Peoples Of The World, Especially For Those Who We Are In The Habit Of Describing As "primitive.

Geography And History

When You Trip Over Love, It Is Easy To Get Up. But When You Fall In Love, It Is Impossible To Stand Again.

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