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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
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Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
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This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.
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I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
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The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.
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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
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Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.
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People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
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I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.
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My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
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The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family
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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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The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the opium of the masses—cannot hear the music of the spheres.
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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
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[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.
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Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
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Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.
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