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From Quotes by Albert Einstein
- If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle:…
- The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove…
- One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
- I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
- I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.
- The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields…
- Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
- The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.…
- Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?…
- Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
- I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had…
- In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or…
- The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity…
- Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.
- It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life,…
- 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…
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