Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 52

• The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Order, Intellectual

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Out of the clutter find Simplicity

  Albert Einstein

  Simplicity, Clutter

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• What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

  Albert Einstein

  Justice, Risk, Capacity

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.506, Princeton University Press

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• The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Independent, Science

  "Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of the Idea of Physical Reality" by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• The leaves and the light are one.

  Albert Einstein

  Light, Interesting

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• If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Science, Men

  Quoted in Reporter, 18 Nov. 1954

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• If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Want, Fairy Tale

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• It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Ideas, Goal

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.13, Princeton University Press

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• Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Attitude, School

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• It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Learning

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

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• It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Men, Comfort

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.186, Open Road Media

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• Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Wisdom, Math

  "Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists" by Robert Jungk, (p. 249), 1958.

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• If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Names, Remember

  "Hyperspace". Book by Michio Kaku, 1995.

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• I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Animal, Flesh

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

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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.

  Albert Einstein

  Persistence, Catholic, Intellectual

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• I want to know God's thoughts.

  Albert Einstein

  Want, Knowing God, Knows

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Religious, Believe

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Body, Process

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• What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - 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. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Mind, Wish

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• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  "János: The Story of a Doctor". Book by János Plesch, 1947.

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• One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Powerful, Support

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

  Albert Einstein

  Political, Intellectual, Together

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Regret, Stupidity

  Letter to Edgar Meyer, January 2, 1915.

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• The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

  Albert Einstein

  Respect, Men, Depth

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