Albert Einstein Quotes About Nature
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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
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We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
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My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
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A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.
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He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
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To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist