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Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
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Philosopher Of Science
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A. Einstein
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You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.
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Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'
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Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.
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It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
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I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
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The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
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The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.
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We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
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As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.
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I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
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Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.
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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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Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
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Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.
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