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Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.


Albert Einstein

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ALBERT EINSTEIN The legs are the wheels of creativity.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
ALBERT EINSTEIN In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues...
ALBERT EINSTEIN To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively s...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
ALBERT EINSTEIN In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the pri...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than know...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.
ALBERT EINSTEIN People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how lon...
ALBERT EINSTEIN They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerfu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of...
ALBERT EINSTEIN If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z k...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
ALBERT EINSTEIN According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and kno...
ALBERT EINSTEIN In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distanc...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred t...
ALBERT EINSTEIN We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For t...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earn...
ALBERT EINSTEIN In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the gover...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN God is clever, but not dishonest.
ALBERT EINSTEIN God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which g...
ALBERT EINSTEIN If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human s...
ALBERT EINSTEIN And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible pictu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcil...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the co...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
ALBERT EINSTEIN If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
ALBERT EINSTEIN If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will d...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at whe...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created th...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian rel...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for sel...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
ALBERT EINSTEIN An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concep...
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