1. Dancers are the athletes of God.
- Albert Einstein
2. If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
3. Curiosity is its own reason.
- Albert Einstein
4. Life is like a bicycle; keep moving on to maintain balance.
- Albert Einstein
5. The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
- Albert Einstein
6. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
7. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.
- Albert Einstein
8. Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
- Albert Einstein
9. The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
- Albert Einstein
10. Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
- Albert Einstein
11. All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
12. If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you’ll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.
- Albert Einstein
13. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
14. Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
- Albert Einstein
15. Where there is love, there is no imposition.
- Albert Einstein
16. If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
- Albert Einstein
17. Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
- Albert Einstein
18. Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
- Albert Einstein
19. A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for.
- Albert Einstein
20. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
21. I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
- Albert Einstein
22. The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.
- Albert Einstein
23. The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
- Albert Einstein
24. There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
- Albert Einstein
25. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.
- Albert Einstein
26. The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
27. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
28. The Universe is stranger than we imagine!
- Albert Einstein
29. Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
- Albert Einstein
30. The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.
- Albert Einstein
31. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
32. Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
33. Compound interest on debt was the banker’s greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
- Albert Einstein
34. The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
- Albert Einstein
35. To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- Albert Einstein
36. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
37. Without “ethical culture”, there is no salvation for humanity.
- Albert Einstein
38. Time flies when you are having fun.
- Albert Einstein
39. If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.
- Albert Einstein
40. The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.
- Albert Einstein
41. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
42. Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me.
- Albert Einstein
43. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
- Albert Einstein
44. I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
45. One cannot alter a condition with the same mindset that created it in the first place.
- Albert Einstein
46. The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell’s equations of the electromagnetic field.
- Albert Einstein
47. I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.
- Albert Einstein
48. You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.
- Albert Einstein
49. Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
50. I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
- Albert Einstein
51. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
52. In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
- Albert Einstein
53. The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.
- Albert Einstein
54. Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
55. The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
- Albert Einstein
56. I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
57. We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today.
- Albert Einstein
58. The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
- Albert Einstein
59. All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.
- Albert Einstein
60. If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
- Albert Einstein
61. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Albert Einstein
62. If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein
63. Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
- Albert Einstein
64. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
- Albert Einstein
65. Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.
- Albert Einstein
66. Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
67. Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
- Albert Einstein
68. The environment is everything that isn’t me.
- Albert Einstein
69. Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
- Albert Einstein
70. It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism separately, but when they come together there is no hope.
- Albert Einstein
71. Love is a better master than duty.
- Albert Einstein
72. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
73. Be a voice not an echo.
- Albert Einstein
74. The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.
- Albert Einstein
75. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
76. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
77. No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.
- Albert Einstein
78. The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Einstein
79. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
- Albert Einstein
80. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
81. As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.
- Albert Einstein
82. Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual’s instinct for self preservation.
- Albert Einstein
83. I don’t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
- Albert Einstein
84. Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
- Albert Einstein
85. I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.
- Albert Einstein
86. Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.
- Albert Einstein
87. Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
- Albert Einstein
88. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
89. Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.
- Albert Einstein
90. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
91. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
92. The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
- Albert Einstein
93. Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion...
- Albert Einstein
94. Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.
- Albert Einstein
95. Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
- Albert Einstein
96. What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.
- Albert Einstein
97. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
98. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
99. I thought of that while riding my bicycle.
- Albert Einstein
100. The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.
- Albert Einstein
101. Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
- Albert Einstein
102. The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.
- Albert Einstein
103. Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
- Albert Einstein
104. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
- Albert Einstein
105. Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
- Albert Einstein
106. I love Humanity but I hate humans.
- Albert Einstein
107. Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
108. Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.
- Albert Einstein
109. Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.
- Albert Einstein
110. If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
- Albert Einstein
111. Nothing happens until something moves.
- Albert Einstein
112. Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein
113. A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
- Albert Einstein
114. If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
- Albert Einstein
115. I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- Albert Einstein
116. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
- Albert Einstein
117. There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own.
- Albert Einstein
118. I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.
- Albert Einstein
119. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein
120. The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
- Albert Einstein
121. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
122. We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
- Albert Einstein
123. The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.
- Albert Einstein
124. Experts are just trained dogs.
- Albert Einstein
125. I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
- Albert Einstein
126. The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
- Albert Einstein
127. Once you stop learning, you start dying.
- Albert Einstein
128. Imagination is the highest form of research.
- Albert Einstein
129. Education is not received. It is achieved.
- Albert Einstein
130. What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.
- Albert Einstein
131. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
132. When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
- Albert Einstein
133. The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
- Albert Einstein
134. Most people see what is, and never see what can be.
- Albert Einstein
135. 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.
- Albert Einstein
136. Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
- Albert Einstein
137. So long as there are men, there will be wars.
- Albert Einstein
138. Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.
- Albert Einstein
139. I don’t need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it.
- Albert Einstein
140. Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.
- Albert Einstein
141. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
142. Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.
- Albert Einstein
143. The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.
- Albert Einstein
144. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
145. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
146. It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
- Albert Einstein
147. Don’t dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.
- Albert Einstein
148. We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
- Albert Einstein
149. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
- Albert Einstein
150. We all know that light travels faster than sound. That’s why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.
- Albert Einstein
151. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
152. Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
153. What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
- Albert Einstein
154. The Universe is a friendly place.
- Albert Einstein
155. If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.
- Albert Einstein
156. Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
- Albert Einstein
157. Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will get you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
158. Am I, or the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
159. When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
- Albert Einstein
160. Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
- Albert Einstein
161. If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
- Albert Einstein
162. Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
- Albert Einstein
163. Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
164. Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
165. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
166. Understanding physics is child’s play when compared to understanding child’s play.
- Albert Einstein
167. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Albert Einstein
168. Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
- Albert Einstein
169. Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
- Albert Einstein
170. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
171. I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
- Albert Einstein
172. The faster you go, the shorter you are.
- Albert Einstein
173. Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
174. The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.
- Albert Einstein
175. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
176. Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
177. Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
178. New frameworks are like climbing a mountain – the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.
- Albert Einstein
179. Our technology has surpassed our humanity.
- Albert Einstein
180. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
181. Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
- Albert Einstein
182. The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.
- Albert Einstein
183. The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
184. It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
- Albert Einstein
185. Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
- Albert Einstein
186. Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
- Albert Einstein
187. Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.
- Albert Einstein
188. Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
- Albert Einstein
189. One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.
- Albert Einstein
190. Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
191. If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.
- Albert Einstein
192. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
193. Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
- Albert Einstein
194. One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one’s time.
- Albert Einstein
195. There is no vaccine against stupidity.
- Albert Einstein
196. Everything in life is vibration.
- Albert Einstein
197. Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
- Albert Einstein
198. After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
- Albert Einstein
199. If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.
- Albert Einstein
200. The best design is the simplest one that works.
- Albert Einstein
201. The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
- Albert Einstein
202. Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
- Albert Einstein
203. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
204. Gravity is a response to geometry.
- Albert Einstein
205. Always do what’s right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- Albert Einstein
206. The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!
- Albert Einstein
207. For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
- Albert Einstein
208. The truth isn’t always a blinding light. Sometimes it’s a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates – and burns – just as surely.
- Albert Einstein
209. Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
210. Politics is more difficult than physics.
- Albert Einstein
211. I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
- Albert Einstein
212. The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
213. Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.
- Albert Einstein
214. I admit that thoughts influence the body.
- Albert Einstein
215. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
- Albert Einstein
216. Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.
- Albert Einstein
217. If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it.
- Albert Einstein
218. You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
- Albert Einstein
219. Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
- Albert Einstein
220. More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.
- Albert Einstein
221. One picture is worth a thousand words.
- Albert Einstein
222. Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
- Albert Einstein
223. Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
- Albert Einstein
224. Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein
225. Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.
- Albert Einstein
226. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
227. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.
- Albert Einstein
228. Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
- Albert Einstein
229. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein
230. One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.
- Albert Einstein
231. You never fail until you stop trying.
- Albert Einstein
232. Even if you have to go through hell – go without hesitation.
- Albert Einstein
233. The human spirit must prevail over technology.
- Albert Einstein
234. One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
- Albert Einstein
235. Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Albert Einstein
236. If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
- Albert Einstein
237. My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
238. Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.
- Albert Einstein
239. Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
- Albert Einstein
240. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.
- Albert Einstein
241. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
242. The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
- Albert Einstein
243. Watch the stars, and from them learn.
- Albert Einstein
244. I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
- Albert Einstein
245. Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.
- Albert Einstein
246. A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind’s eye.
- Albert Einstein
247. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
248. Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
249. To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
- Albert Einstein
250. The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
- Albert Einstein
251. Don’t wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
252. When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
253. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein
254. Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
- Albert Einstein
255. Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
- Albert Einstein
256. For every action, there is a reaction.
- Albert Einstein
257. Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
- Albert Einstein
258. Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
259. The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
- Albert Einstein
260. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
- Albert Einstein
261. Incompetence is the true crisis.
- Albert Einstein
262. However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
- Albert Einstein
263. 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.
- Albert Einstein
264. What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.
- Albert Einstein
265. The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.
- Albert Einstein
266. The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
- Albert Einstein
267. As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
- Albert Einstein
268. Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
269. Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.
- Albert Einstein
270. Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
- Albert Einstein
271. You can’t use an old map to explore a new world.
- Albert Einstein
272. All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.
- Albert Einstein
273. Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
- Albert Einstein
274. Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.
- Albert Einstein
275. Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it.
- Albert Einstein
276. Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.
- Albert Einstein
277. My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
- Albert Einstein
278. You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
279. When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
- Albert Einstein
280. I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
- Albert Einstein
281. Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
282. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
- Albert Einstein
283. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
284. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
- Albert Einstein
285. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.
- Albert Einstein
286. Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
- Albert Einstein
287. Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
- Albert Einstein
288. Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn’t know came along and did it.
- Albert Einstein
289. Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.
- Albert Einstein
290. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
291. One lives one’s life under constant tension, until it’s time to go for good.
- Albert Einstein
292. I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
- Albert Einstein
293. Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.
- Albert Einstein
294. Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
- Albert Einstein
295. I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful.
- Albert Einstein
296. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein
297. Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
- Albert Einstein
298. My mind is my laboratory.
- Albert Einstein
299. Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
- Albert Einstein
300. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
- Albert Einstein
301. Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.
- Albert Einstein
302. It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
- Albert Einstein
303. When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn’t realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
- Albert Einstein
304. There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.
- Albert Einstein
305. The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence – these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
- Albert Einstein
306. I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories.
- Albert Einstein
307. It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
- Albert Einstein
308. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
- Albert Einstein
309. Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.
- Albert Einstein
310. If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world.
- Albert Einstein
311. Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
- Albert Einstein
312. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
313. The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
- Albert Einstein
314. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
315. Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
- Albert Einstein
316. Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.
- Albert Einstein
317. We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
- Albert Einstein
318. Know where to find the information and how to use it – That’s the secret of success.
- Albert Einstein
319. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
320. I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
- Albert Einstein
321. If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
- Albert Einstein
322. Reason is intuition’s servant.
- Albert Einstein
323. Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.
- Albert Einstein
324. Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
- Albert Einstein
325. Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.
- Albert Einstein
326. Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow – perhaps it all will.
- Albert Einstein
327. The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
- Albert Einstein
328. Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
329. The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein
330. Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
331. Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego.
- Albert Einstein
332. Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.
- Albert Einstein
333. 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
334. The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
- Albert Einstein
335. True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
- Albert Einstein
336. A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
- Albert Einstein
337. God is clever, but not dishonest.
- Albert Einstein
338. God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.
- Albert Einstein
339. Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking.
- Albert Einstein
340. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
- Albert Einstein
341. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
342. I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
- Albert Einstein
343. Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet.
- Albert Einstein
344. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
- Albert Einstein
345. You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
346. What you can’t imagine, you can’t discover.
- Albert Einstein
347. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein
348. Time does not exist – we invented it.
- Albert Einstein
349. A mathematical equation stands forever.
- Albert Einstein
350. If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
- Albert Einstein
351. The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.
- Albert Einstein
352. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein
353. I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
- Albert Einstein
354. Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
- Albert Einstein
355. A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
- Albert Einstein
356. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
- Albert Einstein
357. Our lives will be measured by what we do for others.
- Albert Einstein
358. The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
- Albert Einstein
359. Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
- Albert Einstein
360. If you want to know the future, look at the past.
- Albert Einstein
361. Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
362. I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.
- Albert Einstein
363. The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
364. I’m more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.
- Albert Einstein
365. The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
- Albert Einstein
366. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.
- Albert Einstein
367. I now see the necessity of a beginning.
- Albert Einstein
368. A problem defined, is a problem half solved.
- Albert Einstein
369. It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
- Albert Einstein
370. Failure is success in progress.
- Albert Einstein
371. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
372. I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
- Albert Einstein
373. When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
- Albert Einstein
374. Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
- Albert Einstein
375. Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
- Albert Einstein
376. If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
377. The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before.
- Albert Einstein
378. Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
- Albert Einstein
379. Only a monomaniac gets anything done.
- Albert Einstein
380. Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein
381. 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.
- Albert Einstein
382. There’s no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.
- Albert Einstein
383. We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.
- Albert Einstein
384. Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.
- Albert Einstein
385. The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
- Albert Einstein
386. Don’t let the measurable drive out the relevant.
- Albert Einstein
387. Creativity is intelligence having fun.
- Albert Einstein
388. Necessity is the mother of all invention.
- Albert Einstein
389. A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
- Albert Einstein
390. Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.
- Albert Einstein
391. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
392. What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
- Albert Einstein
393. I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
- Albert Einstein
394. God is subtle but he is not malicious.
- Albert Einstein
395. The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them.
- Albert Einstein
396. The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
397. Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
- Albert Einstein
398. If you want different results, do not do the same things.
- Albert Einstein
399. Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.
- Albert Einstein
400. Galileo – the father of modern physics – indeed of modern science.
- Albert Einstein
401. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
402. Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
403. One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
- Albert Einstein
404. The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.
- Albert Einstein
405. 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.
- Albert Einstein
406. Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person’s eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.
- Albert Einstein
407. Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.
- Albert Einstein
408. Never memorize something that you can look up.
- Albert Einstein
409. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
- Albert Einstein
410. I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?
- Albert Einstein
411. Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
- Albert Einstein
412. My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
- Albert Einstein
413. One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one’s own.
- Albert Einstein
414. If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t know enough about it.
- Albert Einstein
415. No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
416. You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.
- Albert Einstein
417. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
418. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
419. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
420. When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.
- Albert Einstein
421. A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
- Albert Einstein
422. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
423. Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.
- Albert Einstein
424. It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
- Albert Einstein
425. I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
- Albert Einstein
426. At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.
- Albert Einstein
427. Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
428. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein
429. The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
- Albert Einstein
430. I’m not an atheist. I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.
- Albert Einstein
431. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein
432. Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.
- Albert Einstein
433. The field is the sole influence of the particle.
- Albert Einstein
434. We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
- Albert Einstein
435. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
436. Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder...
- Albert Einstein
437. When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
- Albert Einstein
438. God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
- Albert Einstein
439. The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein
440. We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.
- Albert Einstein
441. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.
- Albert Einstein
442. We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
- Albert Einstein
443. Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
- Albert Einstein
444. The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
- Albert Einstein
445. The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
446. Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
447. God does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein
448. I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
- Albert Einstein
449. If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
- Albert Einstein
450. I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
- Albert Einstein
451. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
452. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Albert Einstein
453. God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
- Albert Einstein
454. I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
- Albert Einstein
455. If I could do it all again, I’d be a plumber.
- Albert Einstein
456. Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
- Albert Einstein
457. Never underestimate your own ignorance.
- Albert Einstein
458. The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
- Albert Einstein
459. A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
460. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
461. A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
- Albert Einstein
462. Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected.
- Albert Einstein
463. We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
- Albert Einstein
464. Time is an illusion.
- Albert Einstein
465. Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
- Albert Einstein
466. Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein
467. If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
- Albert Einstein
468. Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
- Albert Einstein
469. Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
- Albert Einstein
470. I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
471. Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
472. Time is what the clock says.
- Albert Einstein
473. 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
474. The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
- Albert Einstein
475. The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
476. Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
477. Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.
- Albert Einstein
478. Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.
- Albert Einstein
479. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
480. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
481. The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
482. Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
- Albert Einstein
483. Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
- Albert Einstein
484. Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
- Albert Einstein
485. Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
- Albert Einstein
486. I see my life in terms of music.
- Albert Einstein
487. The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
- Albert Einstein
488. The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
489. There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
- Albert Einstein
490. Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
- Albert Einstein
491. Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
492. If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
- Albert Einstein
493. It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
494. Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
- Albert Einstein
495. Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
- Albert Einstein
496. I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
- Albert Einstein
497. I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.
- Albert Einstein
498. Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.
- Albert Einstein
499. Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought.
- Albert Einstein
500. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.
- Albert Einstein
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