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Gradually The Conviction Gained Recognition That All Knowledge About Things Is Exclusively A Working-over Of The Raw Material Furnished By The Senses. ... Galileo And Hume First Upheld This Principle With Full Clarity And Decisiveness.

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Gradually The Conviction Gained

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Gradually The Conviction Gained Recognition That All Knowledge About Things Is Exclusively A Working-over Of The Raw Material Furnished By The Senses. ... Galileo And Hume First Upheld This Principle With Full Clarity And Decisiveness.

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The Led Must Not Be Compelled; They Must Be Able To Choose Their Own Leader.

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The Monotony And Solitude Of A Quiet Life Stimulates The Creative Mind.

The Most Practical Solution Is A Good Theory.

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If One Studies Too Zealously, One Easily Loses His Pants.

Racism Is America's Greatest Disease, Racism Is A Disease Of The White Man.

It Would Be My Greatest Sadness To See Zionists (jews) Do To Palestinian Arabs Much Of What Nazis Did To Jews.

Where You See Difficulty, I See Opportunity.

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Man Has An Intense Desire For Assured Knowledge.

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It Is An Outcome Of Faith That Nature-as She Is Perceptible To Our Five Senses-takes The Character Of Such A Well Formulated Puzzle.

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A Problem Defined, Is A Problem Half Solved.

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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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Failing Isn't Bad When You Learn What Not To Do.

The Facts, Although Interesting, Are Irrelevant.

My Comprehension Of God Comes From A Deeply Felt Conviction Of A Superior Intelligence That Reveals Itself In The Knowable World.

We Know Nothing At All. All Our Knowledge Is But The Knowledge Of Schoolchildren. The Real Nature Of Things We Shall Never Know.

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Three Rules Of Work: Out Of Clutter Find Simplicity. From Discord Find Harmony. In The Middle Of Difficulty Lies Opportunity.

The Strength Of The Constitution Lies Entirely In The Determination Of Each Citizen To Defend It. Only If Every Single Citizen Feels Duty Bound To Do His Share In This Defense Are The Constitutional Rights Secure.

Why Should I Remember Anything If I Can Just Look It Up?

He Who Has Never Been Deceived By A Lie Does Not Know The Meaning Of Bliss.

Knowledge Is Dead; The School, However, Serves The Living.

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It Is Every Man's Obligation To Put Back Into The World At Least The Equivalent Of What He Takes Out Of It.

I Like To Experience The Universe As One Harmonious Whole. Every Cell Has Life. Matter, Too, Has Life; It Is Energy Solidified. Our Bodies Are Like Prisons, And I Look Forward To Be Free, But I Don't Speculate On What Will Happen To Me. I Live Here Now, And My Responsibility Is In This World Now.

I Have Deep Faith That The Principle Of The Universe Will Be Beautiful And Simple

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It Is The Supreme Art Of The Teacher To Awaken Joy In Creative Expression And Knowledge.

Where There Is Love, There Is No Imposition.

Outer Changes Always Begin With An Inner Change Of Attitude.

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What Is The Meaning Of Human Life, Or Of Organic Life Altogether? To Answer This Question At All Implies A Religion.

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Mankind Invented The Atomic Bomb, But No Mouse Would Ever Construct A Mousetrap.

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Teaching Should Be Such That What Is Offered Is Perceived As A Valuable Gift And Not As A Hard Duty.

The Only Way To Escape The Personal Corruption Of Praise Is To Go On Working. One Is Tempted To Stop And Listen To It. The Only Thing Is To Turn Away And Go On Working. Work. There Is Nothing Else.

It Should Be Possible To Explain The Laws Of Physics To A Barmaid.

Schools Need Not Preach Political Doctrine To Defend Democracy. If They Shape Men Capable Of Critical Thought And Trained In Social Attitudes, That Is All That Is Necessary.

If I Were To Start Taking Care Of My Grooming, I Would No Longer Be My Own Self.

If You Want To Live A Happy Life, Tie It To A Goal, Not To People Or Objects.

I Want To Know God's Thoughts.

Marvellous, What Ideas The Young People Have These Days. But I Don't Believe A Word Of It.

Matter Is Spirit Reduced To Point Of Visibility.

I Cannot Accept Any Concept Of God Based On The Fear Of Life Or The Fear Of Death, Or Blind Faith. I Cannot Prove To You That There Is No Personal God, But If I Were To Speak Of Him I Would Be A Liar.

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Solutions To Tough Problems Should Be Made As Simple As Possible - And No Simpler.

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It Was, Of Course, A Lie What You Read About My Religious Convictions, A Lie Which Is Being Systematically Repeated. I Do Not Believe In A Personal God And I Have Never Denied This But Have Expressed It Clearly. If Something Is In Me Which Can Be Called Religious Then It Is The Unbounded Admiration For The Structure Of The World So Far As Our Science Can Reveal It.

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Each Possession I Own Is But A Stone Around My Neck.

My Primary Process Of Perceiving Is Muscular And Visual.

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.

Mankind Must Give Up War In The Atomic Era. What Is At Stake Is The Life Or Death Of Humanity.

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All Meaningful And Lasting Change Starts First In Your Imagination And Then Works Its Way Out. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.

Pure Mathematics Is, In Its Way, The Poetry Of Logical Ideas.

The Environment Is Everything That Isn't Me.

As To Science, We May Well Define It For Our Purpose As "methodical Thinking Directed Toward Finding Regulative Connections Between Our Sensual Experiences".

Hunger, Love, Pain, Fear Are Some Of Those Inner Forces Which Rule The Individual's Instinct For Self Preservation.

While It Is True That Science, To The Extent Of Its Grasp Of Causative Connections, May Reach Important Conclusions As To The Compatibility And Incompatibility Of Goals And Evaluations, The Independent And Fundamental Definitions Regarding Goals And Values Remain Beyond Science's Reach.

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Everyone Knew It Was Impossible, Until A Fool Who Didn't Know Came Along And Did It.

The Dog Is Very Smart. He Feels Sorry For Me Because I Receive So Much Mail; That's Why He Tries To Bite The Mailman.

You See, Wire Telegraph Is A Kind Of A Very, Very Long Cat. You Pull His Tail In New York And His Head Is Meowing In Los Angeles. Do You Understand This? And Radio Operates Exactly The Same Way: You Send Signals Here, They Receive Them There. The Only Difference Is That There Is No Cat.

It Is The Duty Of Every Citizen According To His Best Capacities To Give Validity To His Convictions In Political Affairs.

The Beauty Of It Is That We Have To Content Ourselves With The Recognition Of The Miracle, Beyond Which There Is No Legitimate Way Out.

The Power Of Imagination Is The Ultimate Creative Power.. No Doubt About That. While Knowledge Defines All We Currently Know And Understand.. Imagination Points To All We Might Yet Discover And Create. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Your Imagination Is Your Preview Of Life's Coming Attractions

In One's Youth Every Person And Every Event Appear To Be Unique. With Age One Becomes Much More Aware That Similar Events Recur. Later On, One Is Less Often Delighted Or Surprised, But Also Less Disappointed Than In Earlier Years.

I Have Little Patience With Scientists Who Take A Board Of Wood, Look For Its Thinnest Part, And Drill A Great Number Of Holes Where Drilling Is Easy.

Out Of The Clutter Find Simplicity

The Scientific Theorist Is Not To Be Envied. For Nature, Or More Precisely Experiment, Is An Exorable And Not Very Friendly Judge Of His Work. It Never Says "yes" To A Theory. In The Most Favorable Cases It Says "maybe," And In The Great Majority Of Cases Simply "no." If An Experiment Agrees With A Theory It Means For The Latter "maybe," And If It Does Not Agree It Means "no." Probably Every Theory Will Some Day Experience Its "no" - Most Theories, Soon After Conception.

I Have Remained A Simple Fellow Who Asks Nothing Of The World; Only My Youth Is Gone - The Enchanting Youth That Forever Walks On Air.

There Is Nothing Known As "perfect". Its Only Those Imperfections Which We Choose Not To See!!

Science Is A Wonderful Thing If One Does Not Have To Earn One's Living At It. One Should Earn One's Living By Work Of Which One Is Sure One Is Capable. Only When We Do Not Have To Be Accountable To Anybody Can We Find Joy In Scientific Endeavor.

One Has A Feeling That One Has A Kind Of Home In This Timeless Community Of Human Beings That Strive For Truth. ... I Have Always Believed That Jesus Meant By The Kingdom Of God The Small Group Scattered All Through Time Of Intellectually And Ethically Valuable People.

No Fairer Destiny Could Be Allotted To Any Physical Theory Than That It Should Of Itself Point Out The Way To The Introduction Of A More Comprehensive Theory, In Which It Lives On As A Limiting Case.

We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Mankind Is To Survive.

Everyone Should Be Respected As An Individual, But No One Idolized.

I Have Become An Obstinate Heretic In The Eyes Of My Colleagues. Momentary Success Carries More Power Of Conviction Than Reflections Upon Principles.

An Empty Stomach Is Not A Good Political Adviser.

A Great Thought Begins By Seeing Something Differently, With A Shift Of The Mind's Eye.

Only The [catholic] Church Stood Squarely Across The Path Of Hitler’s Campaign For Suppressing Truth. I Never Had Any Special Interest In The Church Before, But Now I Feel A Great Affection And Admiration Because The Church Alone Has Had The Courage And Persistence To Stand For Intellectual Truth And Moral Freedom. I Am Forced Thus To Confess That What I Once Despised I Now Praise Unreservedly.

Intellectuals Solve Problems, Geniuses Prevent Them.

The Idea Of Achieving Security Through National Armament Is, At The Present State Of Military Technique, A Disastrous Illusion.

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