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Quotes by Albert Einstein in Monarchy category:
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"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalled catastrophes." 4.5789 average rating  
"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored." 4.1538 average rating  
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." 4.8661 average rating  
"If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so the hell with it ... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me." 4.6429 average rating  
"I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)" 4.6364 average rating  
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science." 4.6667 average rating  
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." 4.9455 average rating  
"The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." 4.5000 average rating  
"I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus." 4.2857 average rating  
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." 4.9149 average rating