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You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal

You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

Albert Einstein
Horse, People, Car

The theory must not contradict empirical facts.

Albert Einstein
Facts, Theory
Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.348, Running Press

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 my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)

Albert Einstein
Children, Reading, Moon

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Men, Rights
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.69, Princeton University Press

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Men, Views
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.124, Princeton University Press

The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.

Albert Einstein
Science, Technology, Men
"From Companion's Lost Diary, A Portrait of Einstein in Old Age" by Dennis Overbye, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2004.

As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

Albert Einstein
Love, Able, Enough
Letter to Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, 19 Sept. 1932

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Albert Einstein
Stupid, Memorable, Ironic
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.8, Princeton University Press

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

Albert Einstein
Creativity, Math, Reality
Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.21, Open Road Media

Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.

Albert Einstein
Coaching, Persons, Seekers

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

Albert Einstein
Motivational, Self Reliance, Reliance

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

Albert Einstein
Gambling, Roulette, Tables

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Decision, Friendly

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Albert Einstein
Death, Pain, Trying
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.16, Open Road Media

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

Albert Einstein
War, Hatred, Intellectual

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

Albert Einstein
Self, Care, Grooming
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.421, Princeton University Press

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Albert Einstein
Education, Art, Book
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.100, Princeton University Press

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Destroying Me, People
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.259, Princeton University Press

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

Albert Einstein
Mean, Nuclear, Investing
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1932.

the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Selfish, Reflection
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.182, Open Road Media

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.

Albert Einstein
Squares, Light, Average
"Atomic Physics" by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd, 1948.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Albert Einstein
Love, Inspirational, Life
"Democracy on Trial, All Rise!" by Anuradha Kataria, p. 84, 2011.

There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

Albert Einstein
Perfect, Imperfection, Known

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

Albert Einstein
Self, Worry, Understanding

Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up.

Albert Einstein
Healthy, Walks, Save Yourself
Letter to his son Eduard Einstein, June 1918.

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