Albert Einstein Quotes

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• To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
• I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.
• God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
• Time is an illusion.
• Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
• My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any…
• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only…
• The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still…
• I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence…
• From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other -…
• Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
• One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from…
• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
• If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
• A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
• In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
• the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,…
• What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means…
• A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.
• The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

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