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Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
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Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
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Out of the clutter find Simplicity
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My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.
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The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.
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To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.
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The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
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We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.
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There is possibility in every difficulty.
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We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.
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Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego
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Time is what the clock says.
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There are six-million shots in the game of pool.
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
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Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.
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In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)
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Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
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The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
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