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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
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Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
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Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
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It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing)
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
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Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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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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I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones.
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
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What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
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A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
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There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it
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Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.
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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV with sticks and stones.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
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Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)
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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.
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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
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Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.
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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.
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We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy)
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
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Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
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The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
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The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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