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Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
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I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.
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Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
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It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.
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The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
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The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.
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One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.
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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
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This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher(when asked about completing his income tax form)
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If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
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One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.
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That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.
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We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
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I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
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If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.
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No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.
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The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.
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