"My scientific work is motivated by an..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.
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“I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.”
“One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.”
“I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.”
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“What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!”
“With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.”
“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”
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“"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."”
“All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.”
“I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.”