Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 64

• Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious . I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.

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  Beautiful, Smart, Joy

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• The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

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  Perseverance, Religious, Hard Work

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• Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

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  Play, Ideas, Feelings

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• The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

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  Dogma, Theology, Cosmic

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• My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.

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  Men, Despair, Serious

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• Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

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  Strong, Two, Science And Religion

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

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  Slavery, May, Today

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• ... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

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  Work, People, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.

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  Appreciation, Mean, Views

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.89, Princeton University Press

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• I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

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  Causality, Action, Spirituality

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our head.

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  May, Way, Bows

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• The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

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  Strong, Spring, Power

  Albert Einstein (1956). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, Gramercy

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• Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet

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  Country, People, Population

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• Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

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  Academic Life, Goal, Innovation

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• In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.

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  War, Science, World Government

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• Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible - and no simpler.

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  Simple, Tough, Problem

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• Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

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  Math, Problem, Greater

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• If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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  Knowledge, Science, Should Have

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• Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.

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  Freedom, Mean, Men

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.460, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

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  Science, Fate, Blessing

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• I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

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  Men, Feelings, Insightful

  Interview with Paul Hutchinson, in Christian Century 28 Aug. 1929

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• One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

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  Ifs, Unimportant

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.21, Princeton University Press

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• In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

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  Brother, Men, Shadow

  Albert Einstein, Colette M. Kinnon, A. N. Kholodilin, J. G. Richardson (1981). “The Impact of modern scientific ideas on society: in commemoration of Einstein”, D Reidel Pub Co

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• Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

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  Believe, Blood, Generations

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• Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Two, Feet

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