“For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.”
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Albert Einstein
“A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.”
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Albert Einstein
“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..”
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Albert Einstein
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”
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Albert Einstein
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.”
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Albert Einstein
“It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.”
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Albert Einstein
“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
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Albert Einstein
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”
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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
“It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.”
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Albert Einstein
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
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Albert Einstein
“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
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Albert Einstein
“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”
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Albert Einstein