"The man of science is a poor philosopher."

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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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

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

Einstein, Albert on service
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"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

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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"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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"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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"All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them."

Einstein, Albert on truth   

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

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

Einstein, Albert on research
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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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"To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground."

Einstein, Albert on master
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"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."

Einstein, Albert on mathematics
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Einstein, Albert on mistakes
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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Einstein, Albert on music
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"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men."

Einstein, Albert on mystery
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

Einstein, Albert on opinions
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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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"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

Einstein, Albert on past
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"The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we 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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"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."

Einstein, Albert on racism
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"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

Carver, George Washington on failure
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on love
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"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on love
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"The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on women   

"Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on pleasure   

"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on comfort
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"From THE SONNETS TO ORPHEUS (Edited and Translated by Stephen Mitchell) II,4 Oh this is the animal that never was. They hadn't seen one; but just the same, they loved its graceful movements, and the way it stood looking at them calmly, with clear eyes. It had not been. But for them, it appeared in all its purity. They left space enough. And in the space hollowed out by their love it stood up all at once and didn't need existence. They nourished it, not with grain, but with the mere possibility of being. And finally this gave it so much power that from its forehead a horn grew. One horn. It drew near to a virgin, white, gleaming - an was, inside the mirror and in her. "

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"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things"

Rilke, Rainer Maria on life
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Wilde, Oscar on democracy
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