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

Einstein, Albert on perseverance
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"We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant."

Einstein, Albert on pleasure
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"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind"

Einstein, Albert on possessions
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"The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working."

Einstein, Albert on praise
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"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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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."

Einstein, Albert on relativity
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"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

Einstein, Albert on religion
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"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research."

Einstein, Albert on research
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"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science"

Einstein, Albert on science   

"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule..."

Einstein, Albert on service
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"Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living."

Einstein, Albert on service
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"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

Einstein, Albert on solitude
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"When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves."

Einstein, Albert on spirituality
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"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life."

Einstein, Albert on morality
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"All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on change
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"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind."

Einstein, Albert on change
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"The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?"

Einstein, Albert on teacher   

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on teacher
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"Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal."

Einstein, Albert on technology
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"It is theory that decides what can be observed."

Einstein, Albert on theory
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"Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up."

Einstein, Albert on theory
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"A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability."

Einstein, Albert on theory
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"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

Einstein, Albert on thoughts and thinking
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

Einstein, Albert on understanding
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"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

Einstein, Albert on value
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"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."

Einstein, Albert on value
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"How do I work? I grope."

Einstein, Albert on work
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"To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self."

Einstein, Albert on world
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