Albert Einstein quotes - page 22

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein)

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

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I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

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Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

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Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.

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People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

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be a voice not an echo.

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The right to search for the truth implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

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The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who know it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out can.

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I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me. (Albert Einstein)

I believe with Schopenhauer: We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must. Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being. I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime; nevertheless, I must protect myself from unpleasant contacts. I may consider him guiltless, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.

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It's convenient with that fellow Einstein, every year he retracts what he wrote the year before.

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It seems hard to sneak a look at God's cards. But that He plays dice and uses "telepathic" methods... is something that I cannot believe for a single moment.

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Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

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I believe that I have cosmic religious feelings. I never could grasp how one could satisfy these feelings by praying to limited objects. The tree outside is life, a statue is dead. The whole of nature is life, and life, as I observe it, rejects a God resembling man. I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.... I deal with natural laws. This is my work here on earth.

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Nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water.

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Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order. ... This firm belief, a belief bound up with deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God.

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The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost; one feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone, no longer in hope or fear, only observing.

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I do not see any reason to assume that the heuristic significance of the principle of general relativity is restricted to gravitation and that the rest of physics can be dealt with separately on the basis of special relativity, with the hope that later on the whole may be fitted consistently into a general relativistic scheme. I do not think that such an attitude, although historically understandable, can be objectively justified. The comparative smallness of what we know today as gravitational effects is not a conclusive reason for ignoring the principle of general relativity in theoretical investigations of a fundamental character. In other words, I do not believe that it is justifiable to ask: What would physics look like without gravitation? (Albert Einstein)

Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.

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I am very smart. But not as strong-hearted as all the workers on earth for he toils endlessly and does it all to feed his family while I do it merely for solving an impossible puzzle.

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A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles (electron, etc.) and not be forced to state them a priori.

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My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.

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Albert Einstein

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Occupation: German Physicist
Born: March 14, 1879
Died: April 18, 1955
Quotes count: 1018
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