Albert Einstein

(47 votes)   Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me

Albert Einstein

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(47 votes)   The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(46 votes)   If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.

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(46 votes)   We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(45 votes)   All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(45 votes)   All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(45 votes)   It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack & ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing & searching can be promoted by means of coercion & a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly

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(45 votes)   MacMillan has this particular quote simply as God doesn't play dice. and notes that it is often quoted as doesn't play dice with the universe

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(45 votes)   Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

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(45 votes)   Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(44 votes)   At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

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1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(44 votes)   Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

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1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(44 votes)   God does not play dice with the universe.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(44 votes)   God is clever, but not dishonest.

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1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(44 votes)   Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player

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