“If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”
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Albert Einstein
“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”
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Albert Einstein
“In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were [someone to] drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside. Our Planck is one of them, and that is why we love him.”
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Albert Einstein
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
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Albert Einstein
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
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Albert Einstein
“The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.”
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Albert Einstein
“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.”
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Albert Einstein
“But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.”
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Albert Einstein
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
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Albert Einstein
“The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.”
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Albert Einstein
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
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Albert Einstein
“Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut”
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Albert Einstein
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
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Albert Einstein
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
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Albert Einstein
