“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
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Albert Einstein
“At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.”
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Albert Einstein
“Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
- Albert Einstein, 1936, responding to a child who wrote and asked if scientists pray; quoted in: Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffmann”
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Albert Einstein
“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
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Albert Einstein
“To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.”
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Albert Einstein
“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
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Albert Einstein
“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”
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Albert Einstein
“I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.”
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Albert Einstein
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
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Albert Einstein
“Did you know: The only source of knowledge is experience”
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Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. 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. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is.”
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Albert Einstein
“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
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Albert Einstein
