“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”
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Albert Einstein
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
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Albert Einstein
“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!”
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Albert Einstein
“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
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Albert Einstein
“Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”
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Albert Einstein
“Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.”
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Albert Einstein
“Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.”
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Albert Einstein
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
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Albert Einstein
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
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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 pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
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Albert Einstein
“A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.”
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Albert Einstein
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
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Albert Einstein