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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

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The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.

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There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.

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A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.

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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

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People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

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

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I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

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The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

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It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

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Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

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Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

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Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

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If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile

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I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

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I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.

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