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Albert Einstein Inspirational Quotes (1818)

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For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.
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In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.
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I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
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God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.
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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
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My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
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Discussion and argument are essential parts of science the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.
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Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.
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Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn
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The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state
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I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.
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Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
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Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.
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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
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One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.
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The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.
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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
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I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.
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For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.
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The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
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There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
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What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.
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