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"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

Read more on On Fighting the Good Fight…

“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.

"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.

Read more on On the Definition of Infinity…

"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?

Read more on On Pondering the Requirements for Being God…

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value"
-Albert Einstein

Success takes, value gives.  

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."
-Albert Einstein

Man was made in God's image, not He in ours. That we so utterly fail to live up that image is no reflection on God. 

Read more on On Misinterpreting God…

"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

Read more on On a Choice of Careers…

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

-Albert Einstein

 

Across a nation an entire population grapples with their own understanding of what even Einstein found baffling: April 15th.

Read more on On Taxes…

"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age."
-Albert Einstein

Another way of saying we are much more clever than wise.