“The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.”
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Albert Einstein
“When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.”
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Albert Einstein
“Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.”
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Albert Einstein
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
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Albert Einstein
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
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Albert Einstein
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
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Albert Einstein
“Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.”
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Albert Einstein
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music ... I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.”
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Albert Einstein
“Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.”
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Albert Einstein
“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
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Albert Einstein
“To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.”
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Albert Einstein
“Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.”
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Albert Einstein
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
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Albert Einstein
“All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.”
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Albert Einstein
