Here is my collection of Einstein’s mythical quotes
When the solution is simple, God is responding.
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Fantasy is more important than knowledge.
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It is better to be optimistic and wrong rather than pessimistic and be right.
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The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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The mind is like a parachute. Only works if opened.
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You haven’t really understood something until you are able to explain it to your grandmother.
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Sometimes one pays more for things he has had for free.
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, but I still have doubts about the universe.
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It is easier to break an atom than a prejudice.
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I never think about the future, it comes so early.
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When a man sits for an hour in the company of a beautiful girl, a minute seems to have passed. But let him sit on a stove for a minute and it will seem longer than any hour. This is relativity.
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Everyone knows that something is impossible to accomplish, until a naive person who does not know it comes and invents it.
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Everything is relative. Take a centenarian who breaks a mirror: he will be happy to know that he still has seven years of misfortunes.
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If facts and theory don’t agree, change facts.
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One day the machines will be able to solve all the problems, but none of them will ever be able to solve one.
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The difference between a genius and a fool is that genius has limits.
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I deeply despise those who are happy to march in the ranks and military formations following a music: he only by mistake received a brain; a spinal cord would be more than enough for him.
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The first need of man is the superfluous
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The theory is when you know everything and nothing works. The practice is when everything works and nobody knows why. In this case we have put together theory and practice: there is nothing that works … and nobody knows why!
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Do things in the simplest way possible, but without simplifying.
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I don’t know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but I know World War IV will be fought with stones and sticks.
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God doesn’t play dice
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Racism is a very bad disease. More strange than anything else: it hits the whites, but it takes out the blacks.
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and however certain they are, they do not refer to reality.
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If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is the job. Y is the game. Z is keeping your mouth shut.
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You see, the wire telegraph is a very, very long type of cat. You pull his tail in New York and his meowing head in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And the radio works exactly the same way: you send the signals here, and they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
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I have learned one thing in my long life: that all our science is primitive and childish and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
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The important thing is not to stop asking questions.
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Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are a power that exceeds the imagination.
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You cannot prevent and prepare for a war at the same time.
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Common sense is that layer of prejudices that settled in the mind before the age of eighteen.
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Peace cannot be maintained by force, it can only be achieved with understanding
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Earth has existed for over a billion years. As for its end, wait and see.
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Nothing will give the chance of survival on earth as much as the evolution towards a vegetarian diet.
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Only those who are crazy enough to think about changing the world really change it.
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The world is that disaster you see, not so much because of the troubles the evildoers have combined, but because of the inertia of the righteous who notice it and stand there watching.
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Modernity has failed. A new humanism must be built, otherwise the planet cannot be saved.
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Anyone who arises as a referee in matters of knowledge is destined to sink in the laughter of the gods.
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The concepts of physics are free creations of the human spirit, and are not, despite appearances, determined solely by the outside world.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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Nationalism is a childhood disease. It is the measles of humanity.
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The concern of man and his destiny must always be the main interest of all technical efforts. Never forget it in the midst of all your diagrams and equations.
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The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
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Wisdom is not the result of an education, but of a lifetime’s attempt to acquire it.
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Not everything that can be counted matters. Not everything that matters can be counted.
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To lose your mind, you need to have one!