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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#amount #ever #experiment #experimentation #me

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#great #intellect #makes #most #people

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#accident #dead #fear #fears #most

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#enough #future #i #never #soon

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#crumbs #different #eating #feast #forever

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #jerry-falwell #jesse-jackson #pluralism #religion

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#minds #number #people #see #small

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#anything #conscience #demands #even #never

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#been #combine #only #power #rarely

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#should #simple #simpler