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Why Do You Do Good?

If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
—Albert Einstein

Source: The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left is Right by Wlliam Martin. Sourcebooks, Inc. 2004 ISBN: 1-4022-0309-8

The Universe: Infinite?

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
—Albert Einstein

Source: I've Got The Secret: What happened when I followed the best-selling book's advice for two months. by Emily Yoffe, Posted Monday, May 7, 2007, at 5:17 PM ET
⇒ Her column is "human guinea pig: Humiliating myself for fun and profit" on Slate.com

WashingtonPost.com's Faces of the Fallen: By Age / 19-year-olds
U.S. Service members who died in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom

World is Comprehensible

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 minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
—Albert Einstein

Dr. Albert Einstein was born on this day in 1879 at Ulm, Wuerttemberg, Germany. He died on April 18, 1955 at Princeton, New Jersey.
⇒ See the New York Times obituary Albert Einstein Dies in Sleep at 76; World Mourns Loss of Great Scientist
⇒ See the NobelPrize.org's Albert Einstein – Biography Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.

Intellect and Personality

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
—Albert Einstein

Source: Teachers: Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes Daily calendar Thursday, July 27, 2006 Andrews McMeel Publishing ISBN: 0-7407-5200-6
See also: Nobel Foundation's The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 Albert Einstein — Biography

Insanity: A Definition

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.
—Albert Einstein

Source: The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left is Right by Wlliam Martin. Sourcebooks, Inc. 2004 ISBN: 1-4022-0309-8
See also: Nobel Foundation's The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 Albert Einstein — Biography

Holy Curiosity

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 (attributed)

Source: Albert Einstein - Wikiquote

Living Your Life

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

Source: Expect a Miracle Window Card series by Compendium, Inc., Lynnwood, WA

Two Ways to Live

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

Source: Quote Card received by Mr. W. on Saturday, May 29, 2004. Scribe: mary anne m.b.l. radmacher

Problems Solved

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
--Albert Einstein

Source: Mr. Wersinger's Palm m515

What Can Be

"Most people see what is, and never see what can be."
---Albert Einstein

Source: Expect a Miracle series; Compendium, Inc. Edmonds, WA