Albert Einstein quotes - page 40

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler. (Albert Einstein)
I am absolutely convinced that no amount of wealth in the world can help humanity move forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistably invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie. View quote
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The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fieldsfor society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province. View quote
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Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all. View quote
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The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception. View quote
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We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. View quote
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There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation. View quote
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On the big Bang theory For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe. View quote
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I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of lifeand the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make theday's work like a happy child at play. View quote
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Long hair minimizes the need for barbers socks can be done without one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years suspenders are superfluous. View quote
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.... (Albert Einstein)
The horizon of many people is a circle with zero radius which they call their point of view. View quote
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How do I work I grope. View quote
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If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. View quote
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By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction. View quote
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God is subtle, but he is not malicious. View quote
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The distinctions separating the social classes are false in the last analysis they rest on force. View quote
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Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. View quote
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He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear. View quote
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain. View quote
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It is the theory that decides what we can observe. (Albert Einstein)
If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German. View quote
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I lie on the beach like a crocodile and let myself be roasted by the sun. I never see a newspaper and don't give a damn for what is called the world. View quote
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The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them. In this methodological uncertainty, one might suppose that there were any number of possible systems of theoretical physics all equally well justified; and this opinion is no doubt correct, theoretically. But the development of physics has shown that at any given moment, out of all conceivable constructions, a single one has always proved itself decidedly superior to all the rest. View quote
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When a man after long years of searching chances on a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding. In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation. View quote
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