Albert Einstein Quotes

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• Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.
• I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before,…
• In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.
• In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one…
• For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion,…
• Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.
• Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different…
• Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the…
• In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if…
• Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
• The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out.
• Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
• The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.
• For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and…
• My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
• The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be…
• All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.
• I always found I was in the best of company, alone.
• To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so…
• In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of…

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