“As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.”
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Albert Einstein
“Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look.”
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Albert Einstein
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
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Albert Einstein
“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”
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Albert Einstein
“When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.”
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Albert Einstein
“Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.”
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Albert Einstein
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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Albert Einstein
“That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes”
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Albert Einstein
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
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Albert Einstein
“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude… ”
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Albert Einstein
“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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Albert Einstein
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
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Albert Einstein
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
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Albert Einstein
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”
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Albert Einstein
“Um ein tadelloses Mitglied einer Schafherde sein zu können, muß man vor allem ein Schaf sein.”
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Albert Einstein
