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Albert Einstein

Life dates: 1879 AD — 1955 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1917 AD

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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02c. 1917 AD

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.

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03c. 1917 AD

The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.

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04c. 1917 AD

God is clever but not dishonest.

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05c. 1917 AD

If my theory of relativity is proven successful Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

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06c. 1917 AD

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

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07c. 1917 AD

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.

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08c. 1917 AD

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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09c. 1917 AD

Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened half indifferent they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

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10c. 1917 AD

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.

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11c. 1917 AD

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

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12c. 1917 AD

Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.

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13c. 1917 AD

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

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14c. 1917 AD

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

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15c. 1917 AD

Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.

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16c. 1917 AD

As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.

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17c. 1917 AD

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

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18c. 1917 AD

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right

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19c. 1917 AD

E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

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20c. 1917 AD

It is the theory which decided what can be observed.

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21c. 1917 AD

Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.

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22c. 1917 AD

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone best both for the body and the mind.

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23c. 1917 AD

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man however should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

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24c. 1917 AD

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

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