“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”
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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
“How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”
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Albert Einstein
“Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilárd, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. ...
This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable—though much less certain—that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might well destroy the whole port altogether with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.”
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Albert Einstein
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
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Albert Einstein
“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.”
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Albert Einstein
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
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Albert Einstein
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
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Albert Einstein
“Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.”
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Albert Einstein
“To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.”
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Albert Einstein
“Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest”
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Albert Einstein
