"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

Dickens, Charles on time
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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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"If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence."

Einstein, Albert on ask   

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

Einstein, Albert on past
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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

Einstein, Albert on opposition
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"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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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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"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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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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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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"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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"The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition."

Einstein, Albert on principles   

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

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

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound."

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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"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 without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Einstein, Albert on science
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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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"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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"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 world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."

Einstein, Albert on learning
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"A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

"When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous."

Coolidge, Calvin on credulity   

"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes."

Coolidge, Calvin on civil rights   

"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good."

Coolidge, Calvin on progress   

"No one every listened themselves out of a job."

Coolidge, Calvin on listening
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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."

Coolidge, Calvin on army and navy
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"You can't know too much, but you can say too much."

Coolidge, Calvin on knowledge
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"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."

Cooper, James F. on politics   

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on politics
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"A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

"Politics is far more complicated than physics."

Einstein, Albert on politics
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief."

Einstein, Albert on knowledge
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"We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery."

Einstein, Albert on instinct
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