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One Quotes by Albert Einstein
- One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
- It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.
- ...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the…
- 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.
- In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on,…
- Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
- The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
- 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?…
- As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when…
- Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.
- To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have…
- My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that…
- When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
- For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth…
- What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with…
- There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
- The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.
- I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We…
- Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true…
- Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.
- But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for…
- He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who,…
- I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that…
- During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The…
- I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some…
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