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"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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"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    Share

"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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"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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"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."

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"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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"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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