It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.


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ALBERT EINSTEIN
Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earn...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the gover...
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
God is clever, but not dishonest.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which g...
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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human s...
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And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any ...
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible pictu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcil...
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the co...
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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
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If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will d...
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
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The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at whe...
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The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created th...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian rel...
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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.
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long ca...
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for sel...
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
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An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a...
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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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