Quotes by Albert Einstein
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
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The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.
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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole [of] nature in its beauty.
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Dancers are the athletes of God.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
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The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
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I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
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It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
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Insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
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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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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties; He integrates empirically.
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
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It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
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In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light - only those who have experienced it can understand it.
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You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
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Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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