Albert Einstein

German-Statless-Swiss-Austrian -American scientist

Nationality: German

Type: Physicist

Birth: 1879-1955

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

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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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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

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How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

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The legs are the wheels of creativity.

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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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Never lose a holy curiosity.

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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

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And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

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The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the indiv

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

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According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

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The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.

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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

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Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.