Albert Einstein Quotes
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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
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Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
[Simplicity]
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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
[Freedom]
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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
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God always takes the simplest way.
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
[God]
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God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
[Beginnings]
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
[Love]
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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.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
[War]
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
[Patriotism]
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How can it be that mathematics... is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?
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