“A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.”
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Albert Einstein
“A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.”
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Albert Einstein
“Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.”
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Albert Einstein
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
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Albert Einstein
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
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Albert Einstein
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
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Albert Einstein
“Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.”
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Albert Einstein
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
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Albert Einstein
“One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
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Albert Einstein
“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”
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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
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
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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
