Albert Einstein

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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."	Ability, Art, Happiness
"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."	Darkness, Light
"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world."	Men, Success
"Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets."	Art
"A storm broke loose in my mind."	Miscellaneous
"When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."	Conflict, Time, War
"We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy)"	Death, Lies, Life
"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."	Curiosity, Duty, Freedom
"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."	Age, Art, Duty
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"	Art, Love, Men
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."	Art, Determination, History
"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."	Time
"Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?"	Miscellaneous
"There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that."	Lies, Reading, Sin
"The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves."	Criticism, Destiny, Fate
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."	Miscellaneous
"E=mc² (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by L/c²."	Change, Creativity, Darkness
"To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men."	Ability, Beauty, Honesty
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."	Ability, Beginnings, Men
"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored."	Ability, Art, Books
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America	Anger	Anti-God
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Assumptions	Attitude	Beauty
Beginnings	Birth	Books
Capitalism	Change	Character
Choice	Communism	Confidence
Conflict	Conformity	Courage
Creativity	Crime	Criticism
Curiosity	Dancing	Darkness
Death	Decision-Making	Desires
Destiny	Determination	Difficulty
Dreams	Duty	Economics
Education	Effort	Emotion
Equality	Evil	Excellence
Experience	Faith	Fate
Fear	Freedom	Genius
Glory	Goals	God
Good	Government	Happiness
Help	History	Honesty
Hope	Humor	Imagination
Insults	Intelligence	Intentions
Joy	Justice	Knowledge
Laughter	Law	Learning
Liberty	Lies	Life
Light	Love	Memory
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Mistakes	Monarchy	Money
Music	Nature	Opportunity
Patriotism	Peace	Persistence
Philosophy	Politics	Power
Quitting	Quotations	Reading
Religion	Responsibility	Sanity
School	Science	Sin
Sleeping	Sorrow	Strength
Stupidity	Success	Talent
Taxes	Teaching	Technology
Thinking	Time	Truth
Violence	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing	Worrying