Albert Einstein Quotes About Time
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When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
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You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
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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.
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It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
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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.
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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
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It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist