Albert Einstein Quotes

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
• Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people…
• Most people see what is, and never see what can be.
• I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
• When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all.…
• You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in…
• What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the…
• I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time…
• Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.
• Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
• The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
• To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
• All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link…
• A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and…
• Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.
• As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all…
• Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like…
• Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.
• Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told…

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