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There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
(1954)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from them self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
( year of 1954)
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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old questions from a new angle, require creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
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God is subtle but he is not malicious.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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I never think of the future.
It comes soon enough.
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The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
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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.
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties.
He integrates empirically.
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Peace cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding.
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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
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Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics.
I can assure you mine are still greater.
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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.
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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
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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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