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Quotations by author » Albert Einstein
German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955
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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
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A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
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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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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.
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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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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
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All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
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All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual
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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
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An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
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