Albert Einstein Quotes

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• It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
• The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder…
• What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does…
• The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.
• The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.
• The economists will have to revise their theories of value.
• In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in…
• Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
• When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
• I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.
• For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth…
• The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
• Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.
• I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.
• Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.
• What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with…
• The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
• All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and…
• I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have…
• I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a…

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