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Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Incompetence is the true crisis.
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.
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Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.
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He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
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One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
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Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
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Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.
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While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility of goals and evaluations, the independent and fundamental definitions regarding goals and values remain beyond science's reach.
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The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
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Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
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In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
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God always takes the simplest way.
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Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
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External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.
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Curiosity is its own reason.
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I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.
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There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.
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