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Albert Einstein Quotes

«I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.»
«If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | Keywords: known
«That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.»
«All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.»
«It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished»
«The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.»
«Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.»
«An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.»
«I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest»
«One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have»