Top 100 Albert Einstein Quotes
#1. Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
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#2. We will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.
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#3. It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.
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#4. We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
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#5. The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
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#6. As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
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#7. Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
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#8. Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.
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#9. Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom
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#10. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
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#11. Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.
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#12. Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.
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#13. If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
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#14. To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.
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#15. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
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#16. I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.
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#17. When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?
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#18. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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#19. If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.
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#21. Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.
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#22. I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
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#23. Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
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#24. You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.
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#25. There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
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#27. It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
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#28. The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
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#30. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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#31. Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
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#32. We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.
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#33. It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom.
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#34. The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
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#35. Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has been an inspiration to me since my
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#36. I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.
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#37. Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
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#39. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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#40. Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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#41. The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.
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#42. With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
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#43. The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
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#44. My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
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#45. If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.
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#46. Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
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#47. Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.
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#49. It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.
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#50. It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.
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#52. I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.
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#53. A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.
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#54. Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
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#55. I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
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#56. Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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#57. The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
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#58. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.
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#60. My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
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#61. I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.
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#62. We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
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#63. No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
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#64. Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.
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#66. The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
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#67. The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything
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#69. Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.
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#71. Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
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#72. The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.
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#73. Human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.
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#74. I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.
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#75. Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.
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#79. A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.
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#80. Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
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#81. Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion ...
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#82. A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
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#83. Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
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#84. If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art..
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#85. More careful reflection teaches us, however, that the special theory of relativity does not compel us to deny ether...To deny the ether is ultimately to assume that empty space has no physical qualities whatever.
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#86. No, this trick won't work ... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
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#87. To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.
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#88. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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#89. Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
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#90. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.
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#92. The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.
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#94. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.
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#95. How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?
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#96. Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)
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#97. Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.
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#98. The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.
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#99. There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe
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#100. What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
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