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You Imagine That I Look Back On My Life's Work With Calm Satisfaction. But From Nearby It Looks Quite Different. There Is Not A Single Concept Of Which I Am Convinced That It Will Stand Firm, And I Feel Uncertain Whether I Am In General On The Right Track.

-Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein

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You Imagine That I Look Back On My Life's Work With Calm Satisfaction. But From Nearby It Looks Quite Different. There Is Not A Single Concept Of Which I Am Convinced That It Will Stand Firm, And I Feel Uncertain Whether I Am In General On The Right Track.

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Life Isn't Worth Living, Unless It Is Lived For Someone Else.

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Memory Is Deceptive Because It Is Colored By Today's Events.

Men Should Continue To Fight, But They Should Fight For Things Worth While, Not For Imaginary Geographical Lines, Racial Prejudices And Private Greed Draped In The Color's Of Patriotism.

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Private Capitalists Inevitably Control, Directly Or Indirectly, The Main Sources Of Information. It Is Thus Extremely Difficult, And Indeed In Most Cases Quite Impossible, For The Individual Citizen To Come To Objective Conclusions And To Make Intelligent Use Of His Political Rights.

Intuitive Powers Played A Central Role In My Scientific Work, Not Wild Speculation, Yet A Valued Resource When No Other Approach Was Available.

It Is An Outcome Of Faith That Nature-as She Is Perceptible To Our Five Senses-takes The Character Of Such A Well Formulated Puzzle.

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.

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Even Trivial Events Demonstrate Strong Devotion To The Universe And Small Concern For Ego.

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Why Is It That No One Understands Me And Everybody Likes Me

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There Is A Driving Force More Powerful Than Steam, Electricity And Nuclear Power: The Will.

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Only A Very Dull Man Spells A Word The Same Way Twice.

Everything Is Determined, The Beginning As Well As The End, By Forces Over Which We Have No Control. It Is Determined For The Insect, As Well As For The Star. Human Beings, Vegetables, Or Cosmic Dust, We All Dance To A Mysterious Tune, Intoned In The Distance By An Invisible Piper.

How Can It Be That Mathematics, Being After All A Product Of Human Thought Which Is Independent Of Experience, Is So Admirably Appropriate To The Objects Of Reality?

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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.

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We Must Recognize What In Our Accepted Tradition Is Damaging To Our Fate And Dignity-and Shape Our Lives Accordingly.

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It Is Open To Every Man To Choose The Direction Of His Striving; And Also Every Man May Draw Comfort From Lessing's Fine Saying, That The Search For Truth Is More Precious Than Its Possession.

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.

I Cannot Then Believe In This Concept Of An Anthropomorphic God Who Has The Powers Of Interfering With These Natural Laws. As I Said Before, The Most Beautiful And Most Profound Religious Emotion That We Can Experience Is The Sensation Of The Mystical. And This Mysticality Is The Power Of All True Science.

Had I Known That The Germans Would Not Succeed In Producing An Atomic Bomb, I Would Not Have Lifted A Finger.

Violence Sometimes May Have Cleared Away Obstructions Quickly, But It Never Has Proved Itself Creative.

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It Almost Seems To Me That Man Was Not Born To Be A Carnivore.

External Conditions Can, To A Certain Extent, Reduce, But Never Cancel Individual Repsonsibility.

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.

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Between The Difficulties, One Hides The Opportunity

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The Measure Of Intelligence Is The Ability To Change.

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

Don't Wait For Miracles, Your Whole Life Is A Miracle.

The Importance Of A Problem Should Not Be Judged By The Number Of Pages Devoted To It.

There Is One Ray Of Hope. It Seems To Me That Today The Responsible Leaders Of The Several Peoples Have, In The Main, The Honest Will To Abolish War.

It Is Abhorrent To Me When A Fine Intelligence Is Paired With An Unsavory Character.

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