“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”
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Albert Einstein
“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?
Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
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Albert Einstein
“A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.”
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Albert Einstein
“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.”
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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
“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
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Albert Einstein
“I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.”
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Albert Einstein
“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
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Albert Einstein
“Todos somos muy ignorantes. Lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos las mismas cosas.”
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Albert Einstein
“The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.”
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Albert Einstein
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
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Albert Einstein
“Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”
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Albert Einstein
“Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest”
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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
