Albert Einstein

(115 votes)   Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(112 votes)   Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(101 votes)   The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(100 votes)   I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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(99 votes)   One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(96 votes)   I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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(95 votes)   God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

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(95 votes)   Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

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(95 votes)   Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving

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(93 votes)   A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

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1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(91 votes)   It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Albert Einstein

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(90 votes)   Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

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1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(89 votes)   I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.

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1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(89 votes)   If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

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1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(89 votes)   It is theory that decides what can be observed.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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