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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.


Albert Einstein

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ALBERT EINSTEIN Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for sel...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
ALBERT EINSTEIN An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concep...
ALBERT EINSTEIN To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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