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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
US (German-born) physicist [more author details]

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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.: Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge...: Albert Einstein
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.: Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.: Albert Einstein
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.: Albert Einstein
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.: Albert Einstein
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.: Albert Einstein
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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.: Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.: Albert Einstein
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.: Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.: Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.: Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.: Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.: Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.: Albert Einstein
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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.: Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.: Albert Einstein
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.: Albert Einstein
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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.: Albert Einstein
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.: Albert Einstein

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