Albert Einstein — Philosophical Quotes

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Albert Einstein Quotes

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Albert Einstein

Physicist

Philosophical

“Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?”

Book Two Feet

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Albert Einstein

Physicist

Philosophical

“Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.”

Happiness Ambition Pigs

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Philosophical

“The environment is everything that isn't me.”

Life Love God

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“The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.”

Ideas Aliens

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Philosophical

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”

Inspirational Life

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Philosophical

“What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.”

Different God Simplicity

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“The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.”

Play Communication Roles

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Philosophical

“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that within the framework of the applicability of its basic concepts, it will never be overthrown.”

Science Differences Simplicity

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Philosophical

“Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.”

Thinking Feelings Stars

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“Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.”

Moving Light Independent

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“To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.”

Courage Process Endeavour

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“On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.”

Hands Add Left Hand

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