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Most people see what is, and never see what can be.

Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
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Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
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Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
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I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
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No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
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When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
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