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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
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Conceptions without experience are void experience without conceptions is blind.
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Life is a preparation for the future and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
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If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.
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One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.
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