“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”
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Albert Einstein
“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.”
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Albert Einstein
“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
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Albert Einstein
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.”
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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
“MY DEAR CHILDREN: I rejoice to see you before me today, happy youth of a sunny and fortunate land. Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labor in every country of the world. All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common. If you always keep that in mind you will find a meaning in life and work and acquire the right attitude toward other nations and ages.”
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Albert Einstein
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
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Albert Einstein
“Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?”
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Albert Einstein
“The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
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Albert Einstein
“Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?”
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Albert Einstein
“Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.”
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Albert Einstein
“The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.”
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Albert Einstein
