Albert Einstein Quotes

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• To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
• Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
• The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.
• If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for…
• Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.
• Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
• The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have…
• If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.
• Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same…
• I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.
• Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action…
• I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither…
• The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.
• I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The…
• What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
• .. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There…
• If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly…
• But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the…
• But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs…
• As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

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