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Collected Quotes of Albert Einstein

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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger,more complex, and more violent. It takes a touchof genius — and a lot of courage — to move inthe opposite direction."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people fallingin love."

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest aredetails."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand isthe income tax."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a verypersistent one."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"A person starts to live when he can live outsidehimself."

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"I am convinced that He (God) does not playdice."

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness ofcharacter."

"I never think of the future. It comes soonenough."

"The eternal mystery of the world is itscomprehensibility."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one getsfor nothing."

"Science without religion is lame. Religionwithout science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake hasnever tried anything new."

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"Great spirits have often encountered violentopposition from weak minds."

"Everything should be made as simple aspossible, but not simpler."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudicesacquired by age eighteen."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does nothave to earn one's living at it."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hideyour sources."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning ismy education."

"God does not care about our mathematicaldifficulties. He integrates empirically."

"The whole of science is nothing more than arefinement of everyday thinking."

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"Technological progress is like an axe in thehands of a pathological criminal."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only beachieved by understanding."

"The most incomprehensible thing about theworld is that it is comprehensible."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kindof thinking we used when we created them."

"Education is what remains after one hasforgotten everything he learned in school."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning.Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Do not worry about your difficulties inMathematics. I can assure you mine are stillgreater."

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"Equations are more important to me, becausepolitics is for the present, but an equation issomething for eternity."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus yplus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping yourmouth shut."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and humanstupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer toreality, they are not certain, as far as they arecertain, they do not refer to reality."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judgeof Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by thelaughter of the gods."

"I know not with what weapons World War IIIwill be fought, but World War IV will be foughtwith sticks and stones."

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"In order to form an immaculate member of aflock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of allfears, for there's no risk of accident for someonewho's dead."

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollarchasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it isreiterated thoughtlessly by the Americansthemselves."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, andall the loathsome nonsense that goes by the nameof patriotism — how passionately I hate them!"

"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are youever going to explain in terms of chemistry andphysics so important a biological phenomenon asfirst love?"

"My religion consists of a humble admiration ofthe illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself

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in the slight details we are able to perceivewithout our frail and feeble mind."

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that,between our politics and our equations. But to meour equations are far more important, for politicsare only a matter of present concern. Amathematical equation stands forever."

"The release of atom power has changedeverything except our way of thinking... thesolution to this problem lies in the heart ofmankind. If only I had known, I should havebecome a watchmaker."

"Great spirits have always found violentopposition from mediocrities. The latter cannotunderstand it when a man does not thoughtlesslysubmit to hereditary prejudices but honestly andcourageously uses his intelligence."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience isthe mysterious. It is the source of all true art andall science. He to whom this emotion is a

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stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder andstand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes areclosed."

"A man's ethical behavior should be basedeffectually on sympathy, education, and socialties; no religious basis is necessary. Man wouldindeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrainedby fear of punishment and hope of reward afterdeath."

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankindadvances, the more certain it seems to me that thepath to genuine religiosity does not lie throughthe fear of life, and the fear of death, and blindfaith, but through striving after rationalknowledge."

"Now he has departed from this strange world alittle ahead of me. That means nothing. Peoplelike us, who believe in physics, know that thedistinction between past, present, and future isonly a stubbornly persistent illusion."

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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, verylong cat. You pull his tail in New York and hishead is meowing in Los Angeles. Do youunderstand this? And radio operates exactly thesame way: you send signals here, they receivethem there. The only difference is that there is nocat."

"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind forthe examinations, whether one liked it or not.This coercion had such a deterring effect on methat, after I had passed the final examination, Ifound the consideration of any scientificproblems distasteful to me for an entire year."

"... one of the strongest motives that lead men toart and science is escape from everyday life withits painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, fromthe fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from thepersonal life into the world of objectiveperception and thought."

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"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file,has already earned my contempt. He has beengiven a large brain by mistake, since for him thespinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace tocivilization should be done away with at once.Heroism at command, how violently I hate allthis, how despicable and ignoble war is; I wouldrather be torn to shreds than be part of so base anaction. It is my conviction that killing under thecloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by usuniverse, a part limited in time and space. Heexperiences himself, his thoughts and feelings assomething separated from the rest... a kind ofoptical delusion of his consciousness. Thisdelusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting usto our personal desires and to affection for a fewpersons nearest to us. Our task must be to freeourselves from this prison by widening our circleof compassion to embrace all living creatures andthe whole of nature in its beauty."

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"Not everything that counts can be counted, andnot everything that can be counted counts." (Signhanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)