“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
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Albert Einstein
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
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Albert Einstein
“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”
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Albert Einstein
“I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
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Albert Einstein
“We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born.”
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Albert Einstein
“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
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Albert Einstein
“When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.
So I stopped wearing socks.”
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Albert Einstein
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
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Albert Einstein
“Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few.
We all know that, so why complain? Was it not always thus and will it not always thus remain? Certainly, and one must take what nature gives as one finds it. But there is also such a thing as a spirit of the times, an attitude of mind characteristic of a particular generation, which is passed on from individual to individual and gives its distinctive mark to a society. Each of us has to his little bit toward transforming this spirit of the times.”
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Albert Einstein
“The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.”
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Albert Einstein
“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
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Albert Einstein
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
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Albert Einstein
“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
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Albert Einstein
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us”
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Albert Einstein
