Albert Einstein Quotes

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• Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.
• Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.
• Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.
• It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
• Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen,…
• The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our head.
• Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.
• Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
• No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process…
• If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will…
• ...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where…
• It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains…
• Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature…
• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or…
• I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the…
• Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of…
• There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it…
• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
• The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything…
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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