“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”
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Albert Einstein
“Did you know: The only source of knowledge is experience”
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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
“We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.”
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Albert Einstein
“Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
- Albert Einstein, 1936, responding to a child who wrote and asked if scientists pray; quoted in: Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffmann”
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Albert Einstein
“Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.”
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Albert Einstein
“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”
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Albert Einstein
“For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”
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Albert Einstein
“A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerfu...
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Albert Einstein
“That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes”
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Albert Einstein
“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.”
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Albert Einstein
“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”
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Albert Einstein
