“How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.”
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Albert Einstein
“Did you know: The only source of knowledge is experience”
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Albert Einstein
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."
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Albert Einstein
“But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.”
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Albert Einstein
“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”
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Albert Einstein
“The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.”
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Albert Einstein
“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.”
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Albert Einstein
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
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Albert Einstein
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
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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.”
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Albert Einstein
“More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”
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Albert Einstein
“The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
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Albert Einstein
“An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.”
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Albert Einstein
