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Economists And Workplace Consultants Regard It As Almost Unquestioned Dogma That People Are Motivated By Rewards, So They Don't Feel The Need To Test This. It Has The Status More Of Religious Truth Than Scientific Hypothesis. The Facts Are Absolutely Clear. There Is No Question That In Virtually All Circumstances In Which People Are Doing Things In Order To Get Rewards, Extrinsic Tangible Rewards Undermine Intrinsic Motivation.the Bonus Myth: How Paying For Results Can Backfire The World Is A Dangerous Place, Not Because Of Those Who Do Evil, But Because Of Those Who Look On And Do Nothing.

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Economists And Workplace Consultants Regard It As Almost Unquestioned Dogma That People Are Motivated By Rewards, So They Don't Feel The Need To Test This. It Has The Status More Of Religious Truth Than Scientific Hypothesis. The Facts Are Absolutely Clear. There Is No Question That In Virtually All Circumstances In Which People Are Doing Things In Order To Get Rewards, Extrinsic Tangible Rewards Undermine Intrinsic Motivation.the Bonus Myth: How Paying For Results Can Backfire The World Is A Dangerous Place, Not Because Of Those Who Do Evil, But Because Of Those Who Look On And Do Nothing.

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The Life Of The Individual Has Meaning Only Insofar As It Aids In Making The Life Of Every Living Thing Nobler And More Beautiful. Life Is Sacred, That Is To Say, It Is The Supreme Value, To Which All Other Values Are Subordinate.

I Agree With Your Remark About Loving Your Enemy As Far As Actions Are Concerned. But For Me The Cognitive Basis Is The Trust In An Unrestricted Causality. 'i Cannot Hate Him, Because He Must Do What He Does.' That Means For Me More Spinoza Than The Prophets.

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Games Are The Most Elevated Form Of Investigation.

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Man Owes His Strength In The Struggle For Existence To The Fact That He Is A Social Animal.

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You Can Move Through Life Seeing Nothing As A Miracle, Or Seeing Everything As A Miracle.

I Find It Difficult To Believe That I Belong To Such An Idiotic, Rotten Species - The Species That Actually Boasts Of Its Freedom Of Will, Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All Of The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism.

People Love Chopping Wood. In This Activity One Immediately Sees Results.

My God May Not Be Your Idea Of God, But One Thing I Know Of My God He Makes Me A Humanitarian. I Am A Proud Jew Because We Gave The World The Bible And The Story Of Joseph.

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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.

Why Do People Speak Of Great Men In Terms Of Nationality? Great Germans, Great Englishmen? Goethe Always Protested Against Being Called A German Poet. Great Men Are Simply Men And Are Not To Be Considered From The Point Of View Of Nationality, Nor Should The Environment In Which They Were Brought Up Be Taken Into Account.

I Am A Jew, But I Am Enthralled By The Luminous Figure Of The Nazarene….no One Can Read The Gospels Without Feeling The Actual Presence Of Jesus.

Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality.

The Discovery Of Nuclear Reactions Need Not Bring About The Destruction Of Mankind Any More Than The Discovery Of Matches.

...behind All The Discernible Laws And Connections, There Remains Something Subtle, Intangible And Inexplicable.

If Someone Feels That He Has Never Made A Mistake In His Life, It Only Means That He Has Never Tried Anything New In His Life.

A Successful Man Is He Who Receives A Great Deal From His Fellow Men, Usually Incomparably More Than Corresponds To His Service To Them. The Value Of A Man, However, Should Be Seen In What He Gives And Not In What He Is Able To Receive.

The World We Have Made As A Result Of The Level Of Thinking We Have Done Thus Far Creates Problems That We Cannot Solve At The Same Level At Which We Have Created Them.... We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Humankind Is To Survive.

One Ought To Be Ashamed To Make Use Of The Wonders Of Science Embodied In A Radio Set, The While Appreciating Them As Little As A Cow Appreciates The Botanic Marvels In The Plants She Munches.

I Believe That I Have Really Found The Relationship Between Gravitation And Electricity, Assuming That The Miller Experiments Are Based On A Fundamental Error. Otherwise, The Whole Relativity Theory Collapses Like A House Of Cards.

Conventional Words Or Other Signs Have To Be Sought For Laboriously Only In A Second Stage, Where The Associative Play Already Referred To Is Sufficiently Established And Can Be Reproduced At Will.

Loving Is Not Just Looking At Each Other, It's Looking In The Same Direction. -antoine De Saint-exupéry, “you Are Blessed Doublee If You Are In Love” - Honeya “gravitation Is Not Responsible For People Falling In Love.

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It Is Impossible To Get Out Of A Problem By Using The Same Kind Of Thinking That It Took To Get Into It.

Insofar As Mathematics Is True, It Does Not Describe The Real World. Insofar As It Describes The Real World, It Is Not True.

There Are Times When One Feels Liberated From One’s Limits And Human Imperfections. At Such Moments, We See Ourselves There, In A Little Corner Of Our Little Planet, Our Eyes Fixed In Wonder On The Cold And Yet Deep Beauty Of That Which Is Eternal, That Which Is Elusive. Life And Death Are Fused Together And There Is No Evolution, Nor Destination, There Is Only Being.

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.

The Magic Of Compounding Interest Is Truly The Eighth Wonder Of The World!

Peace Cannot Be Kept By Force. It Can Only Be Achieved By Understanding. You Cannot Subjugate A Nation Forcibly Unless You Wipe Out Every Man, Woman, And Child. Unless You Wish To Use Such Drastic Measures, You Must Find A Way Of Settling Your Disputes Without Resort To Arms.

In The Middle Of Difficulties Lie Opportunities.

The More I Study Science, The More I Believe In God.

Relations Between Pure And Applied Mathematicians Are Based On Trust And Understanding. Namely, Pure Mathematicians Do Not Trust Applied Mathematicians, And Applied Mathematicians Do Not Understand Pure Mathematicians.

Past Is Dead Future Is Uncertain; Present Is All You Have, So Eat, Drink And Live Merry.

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.

The Emotional State That Leads To Achievements Resembles That Of A Worshiper Or The Lover.

I Am Of The Opinion That All The Finer Speculations In The Realm Of Science Spring From A Deep Religious Feeling, And That Without Such Feeling They Would Not Be Fruitful.

Understanding Physics Is Child's Play When Compared To Understanding Child's Play.

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

To Put It Boldly, It Is The Attempt At A Posterior Reconstruction Of Existence By The Process Of Conceptualization.

With Me Every Peep Becomes A Trumpet Solo.

You Imagine That I Look Back On My Life's Work With Calm Satisfaction. But From Nearby It Looks Quite Different. There Is Not A Single Concept Of Which I Am Convinced That It Will Stand Firm, And I Feel Uncertain Whether I Am In General On The Right Track.

There Does, In Fact, Appear To Be A Plan.

I Prefer To Make Up My Own Quotes And Attribute Them To Very Smart People, So That I Can Use Them To Win Arguments

If You Have Never Failed, You Have Never Tried Anything New.

Short Inspirational Life

It Is My Belief That The Problem Of Bringing Peace To The World On A Supranational Basis Will Be Solved Only By Employing Gandhi's Method On A Larger Scale.

Politics Is Far More Complicated Than Physics.

When I Think Of The Most Able Students I Have Encountered In My Teaching - I Mean Those Who Have Distinguished Themselves Not Only By Skill But By Independence Of Thought - Then I Must Confess That All Have Had A Lively Interest In Epistemology.

X + Y + Z X Is Work. Y Is Play. Z Is Keep Your Mouth Shut.

Keeping Your Mouth Shut

Science Not Only Purifies The Religious Impulse Of The Dross Of Its Anthropomorphism But Also Contributes To A Religious Spiritualization Of Our Understanding Of Life.

Anthropomorphism

As Long As There Are Sovereign Nations Possessing Great Power, War Is Inevitable.

Go Out As Far As You Can Go And Start From There

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