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From Quotes by Albert Einstein
- As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.
- When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
- I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.
- Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that…
- When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying…
- To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.
- A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
- It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.
- Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
- For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and…
- When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we…
- My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could…
- I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of…
- I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.…
- Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
- It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's…
- Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.
- A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during…
- We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those…
- I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic…
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