From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:07:53 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Einstein quotes
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I thought I'd share these quote...

The one quote that I found really funny is the one where Einstein says that
had he known he would have been a locksmith. At some point after he came to
the US somebody asked him what he would have been if he hadn't taken up
physics. His reply was a plumber. He was promptly made an honorary member of
the national plumbers union.

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>                             ALBERT EINSTEIN QUOTES
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>    "It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from
>    one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break
>    is tied to God's special blessing." -- Albert Einstein
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>    "It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a reqime that
>    does not maintain any military secrets." -- Albert Einstein
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>    "It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it
>    would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described
>    a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure." -- Albert
>    Einstein
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>    "So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what
>    they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me." --
>    Albert Einstein
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>    "Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a
>    valuable gift and not as a hard duty." -- Albert Einstein
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>    "Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." --
>    Albert Einstein
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>    Thanks to Rick Burress <rburress@home.com>
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>    "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two
>    minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like
>    two hours that's relativity." -- Albert Einstein
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>    Thanks to Glen E Kelly <kelly@jetlink.net>
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>    "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned
>    my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, scince for
>    him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization
>    should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless
>    brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all
>    this, how despiceable an ignoreable war is; I would rather be torn to
>    shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that
>    killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." --
>    Albert Einstein
>    Thanks to Alexander Elsing <else@neuss.netsurf.de>
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>    "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
>    certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
>    reality."--Albert Einstein
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>    Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
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>    Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. -- Albert
>    Einstein
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>    "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
>    research, would it?"
>    - Albert Einstein
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>    "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
>    eighteen."
>    - Albert Einstein
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>    Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied:
>    "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull
>    his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you
>    understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send
>    signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that
>    there is no cat."
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>    God doesn't play dice.
>    -- Albert Einstein
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>    God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean. -- Albert Einstein
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>    "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
>    War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
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>    If A equals success, then the formula is _ A = _ X + _ Y + _ Z. _ X is
>    work. _ Y is play. _ Z is keep your mouth shut. -- Albert Einstein
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>    "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
>    -- Albert Einstein
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>    Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else
>    -- unless it is an enemy.
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>    -- Albert Einstein
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>    The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. --
>    Albert Einstein
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>    "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
>    --Albert Einstein
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>    "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." --Albert
>    Einstein
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>    "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." --Albert Einstein
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>    "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
>    I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein
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>    "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." --Albert
>    Einstein (1879-1955)
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>    "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all
>    comprehensible." --Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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>    "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has
>    merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
>    --Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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>    "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." --Albert
>    Einstein (1879-1955)
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>    "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing
>    is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --A.
>    Einstein
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>    "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
>    The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly
>    submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his
>    intelligence." --Einstein, Albert
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>    "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
>    education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would
>    indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of
>    punishment and hope of reward after death." --Einstein, Albert
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>    "What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the
>    creation of the world." --Albert Einstein
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>    "If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants." --Albert
>    Einstein
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>    Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into
>    the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's
>    discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted
>    into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.
>    For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no
>    possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and
>    insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognise our
>    inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citizens an
>    understanding of atomic energy and its implication for society. In
>    this lies our only security and our only hope - we believe that an
>    informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
>    A. Einstein, 1947 d.C.
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>    If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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