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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

(1879 - 1955)

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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
Sport - Teaching
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Albert Einstein

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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Atheism - Creativity - Human - Imagination - Inspiration - Objectification - Reward
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Albert Einstein

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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Albert Einstein

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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.
Emptiness - End - Giving - Human - Man - Mindset - Objectification - Objectivity
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Albert Einstein

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Making - Possibility
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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Problem
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Albert Einstein

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When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.
Man - Pursuit
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Albert Einstein

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Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.
Essence - Inferiority - Man - Vital
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Albert Einstein

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
Actions
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Albert Einstein

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.
Belief - Certainty - Feelings - Knowledge
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Albert Einstein

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I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.
Certainty - Human - Nervousness - Reaction - Science - Show - Wellness
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Albert Einstein

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If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
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Albert Einstein

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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory.
Concede - Quest - Simple
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Albert Einstein

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Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
Essence - Inspiration - Playing - Productivity - Student
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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.
Human - Mindset
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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.
Tendency
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Albert Einstein

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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
Fat - Man - Wellness
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Albert Einstein

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Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.
Dependence - Relatives
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Albert Einstein

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The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
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Albert Einstein

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Albert Einstein

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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Accept - Inspiration
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Albert Einstein

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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.
Playing - Prediction
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Albert Einstein

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I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.
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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.
Wants
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Albert Einstein

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Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.
Selecting - Studying
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Albert Einstein

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As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.
Death - Playing
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Albert Einstein

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Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
Principle
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Albert Einstein

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Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.
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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
Fall - Intelligence - Neurosis - Plan
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Albert Einstein

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Einstein didn't speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped out the theory of relativity. BAYUM! Showed you guys.
Belief - Speaking - Teaching
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Albert Einstein

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Education - Expectation - Inspiration - Motivation - Sadness - Skepticism
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