Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 43

• I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Astrology, Superstitions

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• The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

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• Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

  Albert Einstein

  Joy, Feelings, Understanding

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• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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• I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Science, Religion

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Coincidences are God's way of staying anonymous.

  Albert Einstein

  Way, Coincidence, Staying

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• Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

  Albert Einstein

  Brain, Mind, Suffering

  "The Immortal Game: A History of Chess". Book by David Shenk, www.theguardian.com. 2006.

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• Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Common Sense, Mind, Prejudice

  Quoted in Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr. Einstein (1950)

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• The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!

  Albert Einstein

  Magic, World, Wonder

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• A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Creativity, Ideas

  Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon, May 3, 1949.

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fate

  Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

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• You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.581, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

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  Love, Life, God

  Telegram to prominent Americans, 24 May 1946

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• In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

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  Generations, Individual, Products

  "The Progress of Science" by J. McKeen Cattell, The Scientific Monthly, June, 1921.

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• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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• The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

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  Science, Doubt, Want

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• One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

  Albert Einstein

  Jesus, Home, People

  "instein's God - Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God". Book by Robert N. Goldman (p. 98), 1997.

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• No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

  Albert Einstein

  Problem, Consciousness, Used

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• I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Community

  Source: jonrappoport.wordpress.com

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• Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

  Albert Einstein

  Fashion, Civilization, Boots

  In a letter to his cousin and second wife Elsa, during a visit to the University of Oxford, in collection donated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel by Einstein's stepdaughter Margot, as quoted in "Einstein in no-sock shock", New Scientist, July 15, 2006.

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• All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.

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  Wise, Hope, Wisdom

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• I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

  Albert Einstein

  Curiosity, Talent, Inquisitive

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• To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

  Albert Einstein

  Self, Worry, Understanding

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• I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

  Albert Einstein

  Moon, Thinking, Physics

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