Albert Einstein

"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."
-Albert Einstein

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"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
-Albert Einstein

Success comes to those that have failed enough.

"The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause as best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves."
-Albert Einstein

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“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”
- Albert Einstein

Keep it simple, and you will rule the world.

"Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster."
-Albert Einstein

Nature doesn't need our understanding, as much as it needs our respect.

"When you are courting a nice girl and hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
- Albert Einstein

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"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"
-Albert Einstein

An occasional bad attitude is human nature. Making a habit of it is becomes a character trait. The decision is yours. And mine.

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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

Even the faintest and furthest star, resting at the very edge of the universe, implies a boundary. What knows no bounds is the depth to which the folly of Man can reach.

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"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world." 
-Albert Einstein

Could God have just sat quietly "unto himself," or is part of the job of being God creating the world, and the humans that inhabit it?

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"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
-Albert Einstein

Multi-tasking is an illusion. The time/space continuum demands of us that we only do one thing at a time.

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