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Albert Einstein |
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Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
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"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
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"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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"I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.
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If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a Jew.
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Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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