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Science Quotes by Albert Einstein
- Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
- Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
- Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
- I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
- I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
- Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
- There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
- I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
- We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
- God does not play dice.
- Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
- The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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