Albert Einstein Quotes

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• In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on,…
• It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing…
• The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work.…
• But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.
• With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
• Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.
• I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.
• I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
• ...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
• Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
• My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.
• Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
• The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
• The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest…
• I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.
• We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
• How do I work? I grope.
• To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
• My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
• Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.

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