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- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
- Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
- The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
- The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
- You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
- At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926
- If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
- If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.
- Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years, 1936
- Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.
- Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years, 1936
- 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 and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.
- Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
- The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
- When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
- Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
- Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
- Albert Einstein, Translation of letter to Hermann Huth, December 27, 1930
- You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
- Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
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