Albert Einstein Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Science Quotes

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

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All things are known to the soul.

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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.

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There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

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That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

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That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

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Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

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Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

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