Albert Einstein
"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy."
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"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy."
Albert Einstein
"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
Albert Einstein
"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race."
Albert Einstein
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
Albert Einstein
"The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it."
Albert Einstein
"Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge."
Albert Einstein
"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
Albert Einstein
"PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration."
Albert Einstein
"A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing."
Albert Einstein
"A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows."
Albert Einstein
"Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals."
Albert Einstein
"The state was made for man, not man for state."
Albert Einstein
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced"
Albert Einstein
"Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move."
Albert Einstein
"The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly."
Albert Einstein
"Nothing happens until something moves."
Albert Einstein
"Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude that has never again left me.- Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes, edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp"
Albert Einstein
"I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments"
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."
Albert Einstein
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters"
Albert Einstein
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