Albert Einstein quotes - page 32

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing. (Albert Einstein)
It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished. View quote
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The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things. View quote
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For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment. View quote
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Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. View quote
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Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord. View quote
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We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends. View quote
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To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. View quote
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The gravity is the first thing which you don't think. View quote
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To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality. View quote
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But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. (Albert Einstein)
Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object. View quote
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A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days. View quote
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The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think. View quote
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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. View quote
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Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. View quote
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Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. View quote
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. View quote
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. View quote
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. View quote
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If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence. (Albert Einstein)
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. View quote
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Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the growing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it. View quote
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Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. View quote
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Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. View quote
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