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Albert Einstein says: 
261-    “Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”

262-    “Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”

263-    “I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.”

264-    “I cannot conceive of a great scientist without this profound faith: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

265-    “More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”

266-    “Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”

267-    “It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”

268-    “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.”

269-    “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

270-    “On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.”

271-    “I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.”

272-    “I am not more gifted than the average human being. If you know anything about history, you would know that is so--what hard times I had in studying and the fact that I do not have a memory like some other people do… I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up on a problem until I have found the proper solution. This is one of my greatest satisfactions in life--solving problems--and the harder they are, the more satisfaction do I get out of them. Maybe you could consider me a bit more patient in continuing with my problem than is the average human being. Now, if you understand what I have just told you, you see that it is not a matter of being more gifted but a matter of being more curious and maybe more patient until you solve a problem.”

273-    “I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.”

274-    “A problem can't be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.”

275-    “The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”

276-    “ A person who never made a mistake, never did anything new.”

277-    “I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”

278-    “Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe? Another act of willing? Schopenhauer once said: Der Mensch kann was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will (Man can do what he will but he cannot will what he wills).”

279-    “Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”

280-    “Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.”

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