Albert Einstein Quotes

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• Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance
• Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.
• The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields…
• I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
• Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
• The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind…
• The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery…
• To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the…
• Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if…
• The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
• Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
• I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
• I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice,…
• Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
• To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation…
• A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.
• 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.…
• Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on…
• A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
• Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

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