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Albert Einstein quotes
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Oscar Wilde quotes
“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
“Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.”
“Alas, I am dying beyond my means.”
“All art is quite useless.”
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
“An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.”
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.”
“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.”
“Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”
“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
“Biography lends to death a new terror.”
“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
“Everything popular is wrong.”
“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
“Hatred is blind, as well as love.”
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
“How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
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