Albert Einstein Quotes

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• Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing,…
• It is the theory which decides what we can observe
• How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.
• Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being…
• I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
• Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
• A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler
• It is the theory that decides what can be observed.
• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
• A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves…
• If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist…
• New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.
• Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
• It would be better if you begin to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.
• The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy…
• I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in…
• I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of…
• Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
• Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends.…
• I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his…

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