The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who know it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out can.
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I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.Albert Einstein
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
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If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.
Albert Einstein
If A equals success, then the formula is A X Y Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
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