Albert Einstein Quotes

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• If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
• The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the…
• Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
• As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
• This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished…
• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
• A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination…
• Necessity is the mother of all invention.
• In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who…
• The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in…
• So long as there are men, there will be wars.
• The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life…
• Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as…
• Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to…
• Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.
• Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
• The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.
• Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.
• 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.…
• Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

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