Quotations From ALBERT EINSTEIN

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  The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

  Albert Einstein (1879-1955), U.S. physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science, pacifist. "Ideas and Opinions," p. 270, Physics and Reality (1936). On whether there is a special "scientific method."
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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born U.S. physicist. Motto for the astronomy building of Junior College, Pasadena, California.
  
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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.

  Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born U.S. scientist. Telegram, May 24, 1946, sent to prominent Americans. New York Times (May 25, 1946).
  
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  We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

  Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born U.S. scientist. Out of My Later Life, ch. 51 (1950).
  
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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.

  Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-American theoretical physicist. Quoted in News Chronicle (March 14, 1949).
  
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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.

  Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born U.S. scientist. Quoted in Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics, ch. 2 (1975).
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  The man of science is a poor philosopher.

  Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born U.S. theoretical physicist. Out of My Later Years, ch. 12 (1950).
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  Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.

  Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born-U.S. theoretical physicist. Out of My Later Years, ch. 14 (1950).
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  There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

  Albert Einstein (1879-1955), U.S. physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science, pacifist. Trans. by K. Popper. Ueber die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitaetstheorie, ch.22 (1917). Alluding both to Newton's theory of gravitation vis a vis Einstein's, and Einstein's vis a vis future improvements.
  
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  If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

  Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born-U.S. theoretical physicist. Address, December 1929, at the Sorbonne. Quoted in New York Times (February 16, 1930).
  
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