"Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things……" — Albert Einstein
"Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors."
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1,698 Quotes by Albert Einstein
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The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the…
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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An…
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our…
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
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It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful…
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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
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War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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