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Don't Think About Why You Question, Simply Don't Stop Questioning. Don't Worry About What You Can't Answer, And Don't Try To Explain What You Can't Know. Curiosity Is Its Own Reason. Aren't You In Awe When You Contemplate The Mysteries Of Eternity, Of Life, Of The Marvelous Structure Behind Reality? And This Is The Miracle Of The Human Mind - To Use Its Constructions, Concepts, And Formulas As Tools To Explain What Man Sees, Feels And Touches. Try To Comprehend A Little More Each Day. Have Holy Curiosity.

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Don't Think About Why

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Don't Think About Why You Question, Simply Don't Stop Questioning. Don't Worry About What You Can't Answer, And Don't Try To Explain What You Can't Know. Curiosity Is Its Own Reason. Aren't You In Awe When You Contemplate The Mysteries Of Eternity, Of Life, Of The Marvelous Structure Behind Reality? And This Is The Miracle Of The Human Mind - To Use Its Constructions, Concepts, And Formulas As Tools To Explain What Man Sees, Feels And Touches. Try To Comprehend A Little More Each Day. Have Holy Curiosity.

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I Have Yet To Figure Out Whether It Is I Am That Am Crazy, Or The World.

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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.

To Invent Something, All You Need Is Imagination And A Big Pile Of Junk.

Long Live Impudence. It Was My Guardian Angel In This World.

.. Free And Responsible Development Of The Individual, So That He May Place His Powers Freely And Gladly In The Service Of All Mankind. There Is No Room In This For The Divinization Of A Nation, Of A Class, Let Alone Of An Individual. Are We Not All Children Of One Father, As It Is Said In Religious Language?

The Finest Emotion Of Which We Are Capable Is The Mystic Emotion.

There Are Two Different Conceptions About The Nature Of The Universe: (1) The World As A Unity Dependent On Humanity; (2) The World As A Reality Independent Of The Human Factor.

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Study And, In General, The Pursuit Of Truth And Beauty Is The Sphere In Which We Are Permitted To Remain Children All Our Lives." "study And, In General, The Pursuit Of Truth And Beauty Is The Sphere In Which We Are Permitted To Remain Children All Our Lives.

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But Their Intervention Makes Our Acts To Serve Ever Less Merely The Immediate Claims Of Our Instincts.

Education Is What Remains After One Has Forgotten What One Has Learned In School.

I Consider It Important, Indeed Urgently Necessary, For Intellectual Workers To Get Together, Both To Protect Their Own Economic Status And, Also, Generally Speaking, To Secure Their Influence In The Political Field.

Innovation Is Not The Product Of Logical Thought, Even Though The Final Product Is Tied To A Logical Structure.

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