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Quantum mechanics is very worthy of regard. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the right track. The theory yields much, but it hardly brings us closer to the Old One’s secrets. I, in any case, am convinced that He does not play dice.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

Race is a fraud. All modern people are a conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

This comes from a 1929 issue of the Saturday Evening Post and shows that Einstein was ahead of his own times in the ways in which he assessed the differences that caused rifts between people.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Real progress has never been possible without sacrifices… As long as nations systematically continue to prepare for war, fear, distrust and selfish ambitions will lead to war again.

Einstein believe that achieve world peace, nations would have to give up some of their sovereignty to a world government. That’s the sacrifice he mentioned here.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Regarding sex education: no secrets!

Here is another quote from Einstein’s address to the World League for Sexual Reform in Berlin, 1929. He saw no point in keeping important information from people.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn a living at it. One should earn one’s living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anyone can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

Einstein said this to a student in California in 1951.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

This was an answer to a 1947 question from the Overseas News Agency.

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