"What distinguishes the language of science from language……" — Albert Einstein
"What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data."
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1,698 Quotes by Albert Einstein
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
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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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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that…
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning…
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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they…
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All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible…
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Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things…
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Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected…
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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have…
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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I…
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We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than…
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