Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 31

• I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., September 28, 1949.

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• In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

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  Teacher, Giving Up, Struggle

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.48, Broadway Books

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• I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

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  Crazy, World, Figures

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• You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.

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  God, Attitude, Believe

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• Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, Science, Thinking

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• Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

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  Science, Mind, Investing

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing is, not to stop questioning.

  Albert Einstein

  Questioning

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• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Reading, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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• Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

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  Progress, Libertarian, Capitalism

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

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  Coaching, Intuition, Method

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• It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

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  Music, Discovery, Perception

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• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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  Funny, Peace, Military

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.373, Princeton University Press

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• Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

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  Peace, War, Fighting

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• So long as there are men, there will be wars.

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  Memorial Day, War, Men

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• Reason is intuition's servant.

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  Intuition, Reason, Servant

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• Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  Letter to Heinrich Zangger (1917), as quoted in "Albert Einstein: A Biography" by Albrecht Fölsing, (p. 399), 1997.

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• The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.

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  Crosses, Chickens

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• The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

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  Past, Interest, Greater

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• An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

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  Mean, Law, Physics

  "Albert Einstein, 14 March, 1879-18 April 1955: A guide for the perplexed". Book by Albert Einstein, 1979.

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• The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

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  Dark, Feelings, Normal

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.217, Princeton University Press

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• I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

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  Mysterious, Known

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Genius, Curious

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• Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?

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  Believe, Moon, Looks

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• Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

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  Passing, Passings, Depends

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