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From Quotes by Albert Einstein
- Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
- To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming…
- Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain…
- A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts…
- Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
- Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
- In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself…
- The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
- From discord, find Harmony.
- I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will…
- We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind…
- 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…
- Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.
- 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.…
- But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our…
- How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and…
- Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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