Albert Einstein Quotes

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• I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
• I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
• Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
• There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and…
• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
• We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
• God does not play dice.
• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
• Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
• I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
• Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
• In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
• Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

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