Albert Einstein Quotes

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• Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and…
• To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at…
• Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom
• When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.
• I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind,…
• On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without…
• Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am…
• Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need…
• Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion…
• Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?
• It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
• The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in…
• Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
• The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
• The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.
• The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.
• It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now…
• I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
• Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

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