True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein - In Art
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein - In Business
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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.
- Albert Einstein - In Humor
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein - In Humor
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein - In Intelligence
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein - In Intelligence
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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein - In Life
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein - In Love
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein - In Nature
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
- Albert Einstein - In Patriotism
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein - In Patriotism
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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
- Albert Einstein - In Politics
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
- Albert Einstein - In Politics
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Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein - In Religion
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein - In Science
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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein - In Science
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein - In Science
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein - In Science
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein - In Science
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All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
- Albert Einstein - In Science
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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
- Albert Einstein - In Science
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein - In Success
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein - In Technology
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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
- Albert Einstein - In War
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein - In War
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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 suffice.
- Albert Einstein - In War
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