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I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

Albert Einstein
Science, Men, Littles
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Science, Expression
"Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.

Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Religion And Politics

I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!

Albert Einstein
War, Rocks, Use
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.280, Princeton University Press

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein
Art, Science, Opening Your Mind

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

Albert Einstein
Peace, Giving Up, War
Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.594, Pickle Partners Publishing

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

Albert Einstein
Life, Believe, Causality
"The Religion of Man". Book by Rabindranath Tagore (p. 222), 1930.

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

Albert Einstein
Mean, Spirit, Blunt
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.21, Open Road Media

I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

Albert Einstein
Mean, Race, Agreement
Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein
Smart, Men, Hands

There is possibility in every difficulty.

Albert Einstein
Possibility, Difficulty

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Mean, Science
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Albert Einstein
Artist, Scientist, Wells
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.379, Princeton University Press

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

Albert Einstein
Answers

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

Albert Einstein
Business, Mistake, Men
Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

Albert Einstein
Nature, Mean, Math

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

Albert Einstein
Men, Example, Becoming

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.

Albert Einstein
Destiny, Humanity, Atheism

The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.

Albert Einstein
Important, Tools, Physicist

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Albert Einstein
Fashion, Pain, Philosopher
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind

Albert Einstein
Believe, Ambition, Simple
Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?

Albert Einstein
Argument, Enough, Ifs

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein
Life, Prove Me Wrong, Thousand

... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

Albert Einstein
Reality, Opposites, Trying

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

Albert Einstein
World Government, Law, Civilization

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