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Patent Examiner Inspirational Quotes (1818)

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One should never impose one's views on a problem one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
Albert Einstein
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The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.
Albert Einstein
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The right to search for truth implies also a duty.
Albert Einstein
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[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did
Albert Einstein
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I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
Albert Einstein
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Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
Albert Einstein
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Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.
Albert Einstein
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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
Albert Einstein
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Strange is our situation here upon earth.
Albert Einstein
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The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
Albert Einstein
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Time is what the clock says.
Albert Einstein
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It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.
Albert Einstein
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
Albert Einstein
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
Albert Einstein
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The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
Albert Einstein
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I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.
Albert Einstein
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On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.
Albert Einstein
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School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.
Albert Einstein
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The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
Albert Einstein
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It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
Albert Einstein
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
Albert Einstein
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While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.
Albert Einstein
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The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.
Albert Einstein
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You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.
Albert Einstein
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