Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 51

• The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.

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  Independent, Men, Religion

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• One picture is worth a thousand words

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  Inspiration, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, Thousand

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• As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Attributed in "Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography" by Carl Seeling, (p. 114), 1956.

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• Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up.

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  Healthy, Walks, Save Yourself

  Letter to his son Eduard Einstein, June 1918.

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• Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."

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  War, Two, People

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• The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

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  Legends, Honorable, Primitive

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• What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

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  Men, Thinking, Suffering

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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.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

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  Persistence, Catholic, Intellectual

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• Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

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  Philosophy, Mistake, Reality

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• ...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

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  Character, Community, Time Capsules

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

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  Religious, Goal, Perception

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.

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  War, Men, Long

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• Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

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  Powerful, Pay The Price, Civilization

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• It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

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  Theory, Impressive, Thermodynamics

  "Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist". Book by Paul Arthur Schilpp, p. 33, 1949.

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• We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

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  Law, Justice, Naked

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.301, Princeton University Press

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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.

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  Learning, Knowledge, Differences

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• The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

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  Memorable, Thinking, Community

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me

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  Likes, Understand Me

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• I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.

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  Memorable, Heart, Dust

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• Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.

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  Home, Men, White

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

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  War

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

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• To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

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  Beauty, Wise, Knowledge

  Quoted in Philipp Frank Einstein: His Life and Times (1947), ch.12, section 5.

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• This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

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  War, Mistake, Fall

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