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Quotes by Albert Einstein 121-160
121 Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
122 True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
123 He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt is awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
124 Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
125 Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
126 Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
127 Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
128 The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
129 Never lose a holy curiosity.
130 The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
131 I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
132 As far as the law of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
133 Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
134 Information is not knowledge.
135 The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
136 When the solution is simple, God is answering.
137 Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
138 One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
139 I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
140 To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
141 A person who never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
142 Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
143 No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that experiment that created it.
144 The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
145 It was the experience of mystery, even if mixed with fear, that engendered religion.
146 Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
147 You ask me if I keep notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
148 One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
149 I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
150 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to step questioning.
151 Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
152 Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
153 Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
154 Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
155 The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
156 I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
157 It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
158 Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
159 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
160 Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
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