Albert Einstein quotes - page 13

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. (Albert Einstein)
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. View quote
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We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism. View quote
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I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs. View quote
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What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? View quote
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In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. View quote
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspira. View quote
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The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. View quote
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Development of Western Science is based on two great achievements, the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (Renaissance). In my opinion one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all. View quote
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One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people. View quote
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There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will. (Albert Einstein)
In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. View quote
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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. View quote
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The longing for guidance, for love and succor, provides the stimulus for the growth of a social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, decides, rewards and punishes. This is the God who, according to man's widening horizon, loves and provides for the life of the race, or of mankind, or who even loves life itself. He is the comforter in unhappiness and in unsatisfied longing, the protector of the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral idea of God. View quote
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That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics. View quote
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A theory is the more impressive, the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more diverse things it connects, and the wider its scope. View quote
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. View quote
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In living through this "great epoch," it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will! In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot! View quote
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Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up. View quote
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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care about money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin, and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers. View quote
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve. (Albert Einstein)
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honestgood will exert upon events in the political field. View quote
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Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness The simple answer runs Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. View quote
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I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research. View quote
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Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy. View quote
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