Albert Einstein Quotes

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• The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.
• The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.
• The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing…
• No scientist thinks in formulae.
• The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must…
• The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.
• This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering…
• Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
• My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.
• Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.
• To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
• But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.
• You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
• I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has…
• The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
• Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense…
• The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability…
• A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require…
• On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
• I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

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