“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
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Albert Einstein
“The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.”
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Albert Einstein
“You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.”
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Albert Einstein
“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”
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Albert Einstein
“For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.”
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Albert Einstein
“Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.”
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Albert Einstein
“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.”
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Albert Einstein
“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”
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Albert Einstein
“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
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Albert Einstein
“Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.”
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Albert Einstein
“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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Albert Einstein
“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
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Albert Einstein
“It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.”
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Albert Einstein