“I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.
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Albert Einstein
“No man or Genie on earth had "created" anything, we merely assembled God's Atoms, by learning it's properties, with his aid, so if anyone said that we had "invented" anything - he had Invented a lie; an unwise man.... thinks we have created an atom.”
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Albert Einstein
“Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.”
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Albert Einstein
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
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Albert Einstein
“Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the right way. His work for the liberation of India is a living testimony to the fact that a will governed by firm conviction is stronger than a seemingly invincible material power.”
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Albert Einstein
“Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.”
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Albert Einstein
“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
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Albert Einstein
“There are two important things for full success in life:
1. Don´t tell everything you know.”
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Albert Einstein
“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.”
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Albert Einstein
“The mind that opens to a new idea never comes back to its original size.”
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Albert Einstein
“The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.”
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Albert Einstein
“I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.”
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Albert Einstein
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
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Albert Einstein
