Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 60

• The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.

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  Long, Giving, Tree

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• For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.

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  God, Real, Law

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.233, Princeton University Press

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• At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

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  Sympathy, Time, Hate

  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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• What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

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  Lonely, Science, Years

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.234, Princeton University Press

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• Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

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  Men, Thinking, Hydrogen Bomb

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• I don't believe in mathematics.

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  Believe, Math, Science

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• The Universe is a friendly place.

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  Friendly, Universe

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• The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth.

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  Science, Criticism, May

  Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild”

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• There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

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  Clothes, Atmosphere, Dresses

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• It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

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  Distance, Men, Race

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• A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

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  Cat, Rainy Day, Men

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• It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

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  Inspirational, Life, Music

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.409, Princeton University Press

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• Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

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  Land, Brain, Acting

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.263, Princeton University Press

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• What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

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  Thinking, People, Cases

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

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• A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

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  Business, Simple, Should

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• Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

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  Strong, Book, Childhood

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• It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

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  Ideas, Shaving, Power Of Ideas

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• You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

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  Time, War, Preparation

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• Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

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  Men, Social, Solitary

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

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  Science, Numbers, Facts

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• I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

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  Believe, Fate, World

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.325, Princeton University Press

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• Imagination is greater than knowledge.

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  Imagination, Greater

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• I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

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  Memorable, Matter, Facts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.17, Princeton University Press

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• Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

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  Love, Life, Success

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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