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Development Of Western Science Is Based On Two Great Achievements: The Invention Of The Formal Logical System (in Euclidean Geometry) By The Greek Philosophers, And The Discovery Of The Possibility To Find Out Causal Relationships By Systematic Experiment (during The Renaissance). In My Opinion, One Has Not To Be Astonished That The Chinese Sages Have Not Made These Steps. The Astonishing Thing Is That These Discoveries Were Made At All.

-Albert Einstein

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Development Of Western Science

Albert Einstein

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Development Of Western Science Is Based On Two Great Achievements: The Invention Of The Formal Logical System (in Euclidean Geometry) By The Greek Philosophers, And The Discovery Of The Possibility To Find Out Causal Relationships By Systematic Experiment (during The Renaissance). In My Opinion, One Has Not To Be Astonished That The Chinese Sages Have Not Made These Steps. The Astonishing Thing Is That These Discoveries Were Made At All.

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No Amount Of Experimentation Can Ever Prove Me Right; A Single Experiment Can Prove Me Wrong.

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What We Don't Know Is Much More Than What We Know.

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God Reveals Himself In The Orderly Harmony Of What Exists.

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Don't Wait For Miracles, Your Whole Life Is A Miracle.

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I Have Not Eaten Enough Of The Tree Of Knowledge, Though In My Profession I Am Obligated To Feed On It Regularly.

All Such Action Would Cease If Those Powerful Elemental Forces Were To Cease Stirring Within Us.

God Does Not Play Dice.

I Once Thought That If I Could Ask God One Question, I Would Ask How The Universe Began, Because Once I Knew That, All The Rest Is Simply Equations. But As I Got Older I Became Less Concerned With How The Universe Began. Rather, I Would Want To Know Why He Started The Universe. For Once I Knew That Answer, Then I Would Know The Purpose Of My Own Life.

I Never Thought That Others Would Take My Theories So Much More Seriously Than I Did.

But In Physics I Soon Learned To Scent Out The Paths That Led To The Depths, And To Disregard Everything Else, All The Many Things That Clutter Up The Mind, And Divert It From The Essential. The Hitch In This Was, Of Course, The Fact That One Had To Cram All This Stuff Into One's Mind For The Examination, Whether One Liked It Or Not.

It Is Easier To Denature Plutonium Than To Denature The Evil Spirit Of Man.

Those Who Have An Interest In Keeping The Machinery Of War Going Will Stop At Nothing To Make Public Opinion Subservient To Their Murderous Ends.

The Only Justifiable Purpose Of Political Institutions Is To Ensure The Unhindered Development Of The Individual.

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