Albert Einstein Quotes

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• Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
• Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in…
• I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.
• The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
• Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
• O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?
• I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon…
• Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.
• A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
• But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for…
• He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who,…
• Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral…
• What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we…
• Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
• The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light…
• Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not…
• Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like…
• You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something…
• About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination.…
• I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even…

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