Albert Einstein

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"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."	Darkness, Light
"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."	Age, Education, Knowledge
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."	Change, Death, Life
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."	Economics, Sanity
"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
"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."	Ability, Age, Creativity
"Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual."	Ability, Communism, Fear
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"	Miscellaneous
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions."	Ability, Men, Sin
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school."	Education, Learning, School
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."	Crime, Technology
"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."	Thinking
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."	Genius, Intelligence
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."	Mistakes
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."	Knowledge, Power, Success
"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."	Destiny, Fate
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."	Birth, Men
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."	Men, Success
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)"	Art, Men
"There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation."	Art, Excellence, Men
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Ability	Accomplishment	Achievement
Adversity	Age	Ambition
America	Anger	Anti-God
Anti-Religion	Argument	Art
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