Albert Einstein Quotes

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• True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
• God always takes the simplest way.
• Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
• Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
• Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
• Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
• I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
• He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
• The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
• Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer…
• Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
• True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

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