Albert Einstein Quotes

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• I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that…
• Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
• During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The…
• It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.
• The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal…
• Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
• Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to…
• The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in…
• I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some…
• It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.
• The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and…
• Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
• It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.
• This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.
• With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.
• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at…
• I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let…
• Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.
• Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
• One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion…

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