Albert Einstein Quotes

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• The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.
• Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.
• The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.
• Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
• When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we…
• Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
• What good is a reputation not put to good use.
• It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.
• Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.
• My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could…
• I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.
• You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.
• While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a…
• But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
• The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
• Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
• I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of…
• As I look back over the truly crucial events in my life I realize that they were not planned long in advance. Albert Einstein said,…
• I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.…
• I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a…

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