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Albert Einstein: top 100 quotes
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Time (n.) is a dimension of space, not any different than height, width and length.
Time (n.) is affected by gravity which is the warping of space/time.
Time (n.) is, along with space, a mode by which we think and not a condition in which we live.
Time (n.) is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.
Time (n.) is not absolute, but relative. It exists always within particular frames of reference and can thus go faster or slower relative to other frames of reference.
Time (n.) is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exist simultaneously with the past.
Time (n.) is relative... its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.
Time (n.) is not inherently linear. The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
God (n.) is not the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
God (n.) is a singular self-subsistent substance with matter and thought considered as attributes thereof.
God (n.) is a word which is inappropriately reached for despite the limits of the human mind.
God (n.) is, as a mere word, nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.
God (n.) is insofar one means by the word a 'personal God' for einstein quite alien and even naive.
God (n.) is not conceivable as a personal God who rewards and punishes his creatures with a will that is similar to ours. Such is a notion for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
God (n.) is subtle but he is not malicious.
Genius (n.) is in making the complex simple.
Genius (n.) is a universal character in each of us, but if a fish is judged by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Genius (n.) is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.
Genius (n.) abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
Genius (n.) is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.
The Genius (n.) is distinguished from the intellectual in that intellectuals solve problems while geniuses prevent them.
Genius (n.) is possessed by everyone, but in entirely unique ways often invisible in their particularity, lost to the truism that if one judges a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Politics (n.) is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.
Culture (n.) is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.
Reality (n.) is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Peace (n.) is incapable of being kept by force. It can only be maintained through understanding.
Peace (n.) demands the same heroic sacrifices that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.
Mathematics (n.) is admirably appropriate to the objects of reality.
Mathematics (n.) is concerned exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
Mathematics (n.) is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Mathematics (n.) is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. Physics, by contrast, is an intuitive and concrete science.
Mathematics (n.) is always ending in paradox
Intelligence (n.) is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.