“I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”
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Albert Einstein
“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”
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Albert Einstein
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
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Albert Einstein
“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.”
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Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
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Albert Einstein
“The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.”
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Albert Einstein
“How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.”
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Albert Einstein
“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”
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Albert Einstein
“Es gibt zwei Arten sein Leben zu leben: entweder so, als wäre nichts ein Wunder, oder so, als wäre alles eines. Ich glaube an Letzteres.”
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Albert Einstein
“One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.”
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Albert Einstein
“I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.”
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Albert Einstein
“When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”
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Albert Einstein
“Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.”
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Albert Einstein