“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
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Albert Einstein
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
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Albert Einstein
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.”
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Albert Einstein
“I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.”
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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
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
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Albert Einstein
“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!”
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Albert Einstein
“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
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Albert Einstein
“Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me”
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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
“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”
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Albert Einstein
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
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Albert Einstein
