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The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.

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Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
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But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior.
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Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
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My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
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I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
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Give back to the world at least what you've received.
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What counts can't always be counted what can be counted doesn't always count.
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Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.
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An expert is a person who has few new ideas a beginner is a person with many.
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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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All my life I have dealt with objective matters hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.
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Never memorize what you can look up in a book.
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About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
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Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
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My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
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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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How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]
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