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Albert Einstein Quotes

«The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.»
«I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.»
«Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.»
«Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.»
«Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.»
«A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.»
«The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.»
«How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends»
«If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.»
«a purely algebraic physics.»