Albert Einstein Quotes, Fall Quotes, Science Quotes

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

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Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

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The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

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Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

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If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

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I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

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The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

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I don't believe in mathematics.

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

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Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

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What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.

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That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.

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People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.

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Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

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Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.

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School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

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The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

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Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

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The important things are always simple.

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The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

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