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Life of Einstein
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content.
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E = mc²
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We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.
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Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.
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I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!
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By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, an
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How much do I love that noble manMore than I could tell with wordsI fear though he'll remain aloneWith a holy halo of his own.
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I am neither a German citizen, nor do I believe in anything that can be described as a "Jewish faith." But I am a Jew and glad to belong to the Jewish people, though I do not regard it in any way as chosen.
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Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.
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I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.
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In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.