“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
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Albert Einstein
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
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Albert Einstein
“Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.”
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Albert Einstein
“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”
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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
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
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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
“I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
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Albert Einstein
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
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Albert Einstein
“Have the courage to take your own thoughts
seriously, for they will shape you.”
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Albert Einstein
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
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Albert Einstein
“Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?”
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Albert Einstein
“I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.
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Albert Einstein
“I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.”
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Albert Einstein
