Albert Einstein Quotes

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• E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L in the form…
• The field is the sole influence of the particle.
• If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea,…
• Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this.…
• I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic…
• We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the…
• The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.
• Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the…
• I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
• Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.
• Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
• Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
• Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only…
• One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the…
• Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.
• A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our…
• There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.
• I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole…
• If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
• I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth -…

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