“Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events”
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Albert Einstein
“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
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Albert Einstein
“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.”
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Albert Einstein
“Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. ”
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Albert Einstein
“For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.”
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Albert Einstein
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”
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Albert Einstein
“Schopenhauer’s saying, that “a man can do as he will, but not will as he will,” has been an inspiration to me since my”
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Albert Einstein
“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?
Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
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Albert Einstein
“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
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Albert Einstein
“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”
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Albert Einstein
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
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Albert Einstein
“I want to oppose the idea that the school has to teach directly that special knowledge and those accomplishments which one has to use later directly in life. The demands of life are much too manifold to let such a specialized training in school appear possible [...] The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgement should always be placed foremost.”
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Albert Einstein
