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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
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Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
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The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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Everybody is a genius.  But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein
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Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
Albert Einstein
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Albert Einstein
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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
Albert Einstein,The World As I See It
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Albert Einstein
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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Never memorize something that you can look up.
Albert Einstein
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein
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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Albert Einstein
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.  The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein,Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Albert Einstein
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Albert Einstein
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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
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You never fail until you stop trying.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein,Albert Einstein
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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Albert Einstein
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Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Albert Einstein
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The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
Albert Einstein
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If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
Albert Einstein
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It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Albert Einstein
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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
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Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
Albert Einstein
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When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
Albert Einstein
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What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.
Albert Einstein
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
Albert Einstein
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein
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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters
Albert Einstein
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
Albert Einstein
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We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
Albert Einstein
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Love is a better master than duty.
Albert Einstein
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
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I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
Albert Einstein
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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.  Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Albert Einstein
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It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
Albert Einstein
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Time is an illusion.
Albert Einstein
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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
Albert Einstein
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Out of clutter, find simplicity.
Albert Einstein
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I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Albert Einstein
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
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Nothing happens until something moves.
Albert Einstein
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
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Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...
Albert Einstein
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We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein
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I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
Albert Einstein
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God does not play dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein,The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
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A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.
Albert Einstein
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Albert Einstein
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
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Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.
Albert Einstein
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
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Imagination is the highest form of research.
Albert Einstein
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
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You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein
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What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
Albert Einstein
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
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Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Albert Einstein
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
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From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
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Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
Albert Einstein
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
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I love Humanity but I hate humans
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
Albert Einstein
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If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
Albert Einstein
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Albert Einstein
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein
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A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
Albert Einstein
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I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.
Albert Einstein
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If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
Albert Einstein
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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein
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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Albert Einstein
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)
Albert Einstein
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein
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I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
Albert Einstein
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
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It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
Albert Einstein
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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
Albert Einstein
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Einstein
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein
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Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
Albert Einstein
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein
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God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Albert Einstein
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The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
Albert Einstein
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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
Albert Einstein
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
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