Albert Einstein Quotes

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• The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
• The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to…
• I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my…
• ... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly…
• Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ...
• It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological…
• There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right,…
• It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.
• ... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely…
• There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in…
• ... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the…
• Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his…
• We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn…
• Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as…
• An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere,…
• I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of…
• I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as…
• God casts the die, not the dice.
• Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
• ... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

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