“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”
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Albert Einstein
“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
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Albert Einstein
“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”
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Albert Einstein
“In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all, be a sheep.”
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Albert Einstein
“Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.”
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Albert Einstein
“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
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Albert Einstein
“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.”
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Albert Einstein
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”
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Albert Einstein
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
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Albert Einstein
“El nacionalismo es una enfermedad infantil. Es el sarampion de la humanidad.”
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Albert Einstein
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
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Albert Einstein
“I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”
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Albert Einstein
