Albert Einstein Quotes

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• While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility…
• For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the…
• Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.
• In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in…
• Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before…
• In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into…
• My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
• Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
• The legs are the wheels of creativity.
• A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
• A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.
• The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
• Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.
• I live my daydreams in music.
• [When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom…
• [Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the…
• What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.
• A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to…
• The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
• Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

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