Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 55

• The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind
  any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to
  safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently
  strong executive power, can protect us.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Discovery, Organization

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.65, Broadway Books

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• ...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Law, Connections

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• Common sense needs constant reappraisal.

  Albert Einstein

  Common Sense, Needs, Common

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• Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

  Albert Einstein

  Play, Stage, Conventional

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• Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, People, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.

  Albert Einstein

  Evil, World, Places To Live

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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. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Play, Weather

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Civilization, Community

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• It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, People, Criticism

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• Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

  Albert Einstein

  Years, Fifty, Knows

  "Albert Einstein and the Cosmic World Order,". Book by C. Lanczos, Wiley, New York, 1956.

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• A priori one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way... The kind of order created by Newton's theory of gravitation...is wholly different. Even if the axioms of the theory are proposed by man, the success of such a project presupposes a high degree of ordering of the objective world.... That is the "miracle" which is being constantly reinforced as our knowledge expands.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Order, Miracle

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• In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of my friend and colleague M. Besso, and that I am indebted to him for several valuable suggestions.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Wish, Suggestions

  Albert Einstein, Francis A. Davis (2013). “The Principle of Relativity”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Futility Of Life, Young

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• On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

  Albert Einstein

  Grease, Brain, Use

  Quoted by Otto Stern in an interview with Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962.

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• Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

  Albert Einstein

  Genius, Each Day, Study

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• Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

  Albert Einstein

  Party, People, Political

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

  Albert Einstein

  World Government, Desire, Environment

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• The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Player, Games

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• To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Reflection, Mind

  Speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932); as published in "Einstein: A Life in Science" by Michael White and John Gribbin, 1994.

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• I have just got a new theory of eternity.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.449, Princeton University Press

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• Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

  Albert Einstein

  Animal, Different, Behavior

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

  Albert Einstein

  Future, Winter, Science

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• I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Obstinacy, Originals

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• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Lying, Men

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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