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When Men Are Engaged In War And Conquest, The Tools Of Science Become As Dangerous As A Razor In The Hands Of A Child Of Three. We Must Not Condemn Man Because His Inventiveness And Patient Conquest Of The Forces Of Nature Are Being Exploited For False And Destructive Purposes. Rather, We Should Remember That The Fate Of Mankind Hinges Entirely Upon Man’s Moral Development.

-Albert Einstein

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When Men Are Engaged

Albert Einstein

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When Men Are Engaged In War And Conquest, The Tools Of Science Become As Dangerous As A Razor In The Hands Of A Child Of Three. We Must Not Condemn Man Because His Inventiveness And Patient Conquest Of The Forces Of Nature Are Being Exploited For False And Destructive Purposes. Rather, We Should Remember That The Fate Of Mankind Hinges Entirely Upon Man’s Moral Development.

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Not Until The Creation And Maintenance Of Decent Conditions Of Life For All Men Are Recognized And Accepted As A Common Obligation Of All Men And All Countries — Not Until Then Shall We, With A Certain Degree Of Justification, Be Able To Speak Of Mankind As Civilized.

An Attempt At Visualizing The Fourth Dimension: Take A Point, Stretch It Into A Line, Curl It Into A Circle, Twist It Into A Sphere, And Punch Through The Sphere.

Imagination Rules The Earth

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.

Failing Isn't Bad When You Learn What Not To Do.

I Very Rarely Think In Words At All. A Thought Comes, And I May Try To Express In Words Afterwards.

Every Day, Man Is Making Bigger And Better Fool-proof Things, And Every Day, Nature Is Making Bigger And Better Fools. So Far, I Think Nature Is Winning.

It Is Certainly True That Principles Cannot Be More Securely Founded Than On Experience And Consciously Clear Thinking.

It Is My View That The Vegetarian Manner Of Living, By Its Purely Physical Effect On The Human Temperament, Would Most Beneficially Influence The Lot Of Mankind.

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I Have Become An Obstinate Heretic In The Eyes Of My Colleagues. Momentary Success Carries More Power Of Conviction Than Reflections Upon Principles.

Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality.

There Is Nothing Divine About Morality, It Is A Purely Human Affair.

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Out Of Clutter, Find Simplicity.

Older Men Start Wars, But Younger Men Fight Them.

The Ability To Portray People In Still Life And In Motion Requires The Highest Measure Of Intuition And Talent.

Concern For Man And His Fate Must Always Form The Chief Interest Of All Technical Endeavors. Never Forget This In The Midst Of Your Diagrams And Equations.

How Can Any Educated Person Stay Away From The Greeks? I Have Always Been Far More Interested In Them Than In Science.

Educated Person

We Are Slowed Down Sound And Light Waves, A Walking Bundle Of Frequencies Tuned Into The Cosmos. We Are Souls Dressed Up In Sacred Biochemical Garments And Our Bodies Are The Instruments Through Which Our Souls Play Their Music.

Intelligence Is Not The Ability To Store Information, But To Know Where To Find It.

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.

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

The Chicken Did Not Cross The Road. The Road Passed Beneath The Chicken.

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The Most Practical Solution Is A Good Theory.

Everyday Is An Oportunity To Make A New Happy Ending.

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

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Beyond The Realms Of What We See, Into The Regions Or The Unexplored Limited Only By Our Imaginations.

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