Make it count
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
—Albert Einstein
—Albert Einstein
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| — | Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton. |
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.”
—Albert Einstein
—Albert Einstein
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…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.”
—Albert Einstein
—Albert Einstein
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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.”
—Albert Einstein
—Albert Einstein
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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.”
—Albert Einstein
—Albert Einstein
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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.”
—Albert Einstein
—Albert Einstein
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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.”
—Albert Einstein
—Albert Einstein
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
—Albert Einstein
—Albert Einstein
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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.”
—Albert Einstein
—Albert Einstein
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”
—Albert Einstein
—Albert Einstein
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