Monday, February 09, 2009

Quotes from Albert Einstein



Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction
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Imagination is more important than knowledge
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love
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I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one
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The only real valuable thing is intuition
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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself
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I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice
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God is subtle but he is not malicious
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough
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The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing
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Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new
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Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal
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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible
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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing
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Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones
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No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker

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