"There is only one road to human..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
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“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
“The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.”
“Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.”
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“When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.”
“How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.”
“... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.”