Quotes by Einstein, Albert

"Politics is far more complicated than physics."

Einstein, Albert on politics
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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   

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

Einstein, Albert on bargains
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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 attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."

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

Einstein, Albert on reality
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"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."

Einstein, Albert on relationship
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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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"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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"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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"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 can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary."

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

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   

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

Einstein, Albert on self-esteem
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"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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"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"God always takes the simplest way."

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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"Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature."

Einstein, Albert on solitude
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"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."

Einstein, Albert on soul   

"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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