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If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

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Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

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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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The most practical solution is a good theory.

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The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

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It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

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The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

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I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

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Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."

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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

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Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.

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Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

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He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.

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The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

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I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

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