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In Their Struggle For The Ethical Good, Teachers Of Religion Must Have The Stature To Give Up The Doctrine Of A Personal God, That Is, Give Up That Source Of Fear And Hope Which In The Past Placed Such Vast Power In The Hands Of Priests. In Their Labors They Will Have To Avail Themselves Of Those Forces Which Are Capable Of Cultivating The Good, The True, And The Beautiful In Humanity Itself. This Is, To Be Sure, A More Difficult But An Incomparably More Worthy Task.

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In Their Struggle For The Ethical Good, Teachers Of Religion Must Have The Stature To Give Up The Doctrine Of A Personal God, That Is, Give Up That Source Of Fear And Hope Which In The Past Placed Such Vast Power In The Hands Of Priests. In Their Labors They Will Have To Avail Themselves Of Those Forces Which Are Capable Of Cultivating The Good, The True, And The Beautiful In Humanity Itself. This Is, To Be Sure, A More Difficult But An Incomparably More Worthy Task.

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Beyond The Realms Of What We See, Into The Regions Or The Unexplored Limited Only By Our Imaginations.

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Give Back To The World At Least What You've Received.

If You Want To Find Out Anything From The Theoretical Physicists About The Methods They Use, I Advise You To Stick Closely To One Principle: Don't Listen To Their Words, Fix Your Attention On Their Deeds. To Him Who Is A Discoverer In This Field The Products Of His Imagination Appear So Necessary And Natural That He Regards Them, And Would Like To Have Them Regarded By Others, Not As Creations Of Thought But As Given Realities.

Persistence Is The Most Powerful Force On Earth, It Can Move Mountains.

The Devil Has Put A Penalty On All Things We Enjoy In Life. Either We Suffer In Our Health, Or We Suffer In Our Soul, Or We Get Fat.

What Artistic And Scientific Experience Have In Common - Where The World Ceases To Be The Scene Of Our Personal Hopes And Wishes, Where We Face It As Free Beings Admiring, Asking, And Observing, There We Enter The Realm Of Art And Science. If What Is Seen And Experienced Is Portrayed In The Language Of Logic, We Are Engaged In Science. If It Is Communicated Through Forms Whose Connections Are Not Accessible To The Conscious Mind But Are Recognized Intuitively As Meaninful, Then We Are Engaged In Art. Common To Both Is The Loving Devotion To That Which Transcends Personal Concerns And Volition.

Cherish The Questions, For The Answers Keep Changing.

I Never Said Half The Crap People Said I Did.

I Should Much Rather See Reasonable Agreement With The Arabs On The Basis Of Living Together In Peace Than The Creation Of A Jewish State. My Awareness Of The Essential Nature Of Judaism Resists The Idea Of A Jewish State With Borders, An Army, And A Measure Of Temporal Power, No Matter How Modest. I Am Afraid Of The Inner Damage Judaism Will Sustain—especially From The Development Of A Narrow Nationalism Within Our Own Ranks, Against Which We Have Already Had To Fight Strongly, Even Without A Jewish State.

The Value Of A College Education Is Not The Learning Of Many Facts But The Training Of The Mind To Think

There Is One Ray Of Hope. It Seems To Me That Today The Responsible Leaders Of The Several Peoples Have, In The Main, The Honest Will To Abolish War.

A Human Being Is A Part Of The Whole Called By Us Universe, A Part Limited In Time And Space. He Experiences Himself, His Thoughts And Feeling As Something Separated From The Rest, A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of His Consciousness. This Delusion Is A Kind Of Prison For Us, Restricting Us To Our Personal Desires And To Affection For A Few Persons Nearest To Us. Our Task Must Be To Free Ourselves From This Prison By Widening Our Circle Of Compassion To Embrace All Living Creatures And The Whole Of Nature In Its Beauty.

Fraulein Noether Was The Most Significant Creative Mathematical Genius Thus Far Produced Since The Higher Education Of Women Began.

Future Medicine Will Be The Medicine Of Frequencies.

We Cannot Despair About Mankind Knowing That Mozart Was A Man.

A Theory Is The More Impressive The Greater The Simplicity Of Its Premises Is, The More Different Kinds Of Things It Relates, And The More Extended Its Area Of Applicability.

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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.

If God Has Created The World, His Primary Worry Was Certainly Not To Make Its Understanding Easy For Us

Every Thoughtful, Well-meaning And Conscientious Human Being Should Assume In Time Of Peace, The Solemn And Unconditional Obligation Not To Participate In Any War, For Any Reason Or To Lend Support Of Any Kind, Whether Direct Or Indirect.

The Fanatical Atheists Are Like Slaves Who Are Still Feeling The Weight Of Their Chains Which They Have Thrown Off After Hard Struggle. They Are Creatures Who—in Their Grudge Against Traditional Religion As The "opium Of The Masses"—cannot Hear The Music Of The Spheres.

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Even Trivial Events Demonstrate Strong Devotion To The Universe And Small Concern For Ego.

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

God Always Takes The Simplest Way.

I Want To Know All God's Thoughts.

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It Is A Very Grave Mistake To Think That The Enjoyment Of Seeing And Searching Can Be Promoted By Means Of Coercion And A Sense Of Duty.

I Never Think Of The Future - It Comes Soon Enough.

Concern For Man Himself Must Always Constitute The Chief Objective Of All Technological Effort

I Do Not Like To State An Opinion On A Matter Unless I Know The Precise Facts.

An Attempt At Visualizing The Fourth Dimension: Take A Point, Stretch It Into A Line, Curl It Into A Circle, Twist It Into A Sphere, And Punch Through The Sphere.

If I Had 20 Days To Solve A Problem, I Would Take 19 Days To Define It

The History Of Scientific And Technical Discovery Teaches Us That The Human Race Is Poor In Independent And Creative Imagination.

I Assert That The Cosmic Religious Experience Is The Strongest And The Noblest Driving Force Behind Scientific Research.

It Is Difficult To Say What Truth Is, But Sometimes It Is So Easy To Recognize A Falsehood.

One Must Shy Away From Questionable Undertakings, Even When They Bear A High-sounding Name.

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