Albert Einstein Quotes

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• I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
• Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and…
• Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.
• Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that…
• Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
• There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
• Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.
• I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to…
• Certainly there are things worth believing. I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you ask me to…
• I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the…
• Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
• We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories.
• Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.
• I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons…
• I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working…
• He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.
• Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.
• I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.
• Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.
• The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

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