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[newton Wrote To Halley ... That He Would Not Give Hooke Any Credit] That, Alas, Is Vanity. You Find It In So Many Scientists. You Know, It Has Always Hurt Me To Think That Galileo Did Not Acknowledge The Work Of Kepler.

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[newton Wrote To Halley ... That He Would Not Give Hooke Any Credit] That, Alas, Is Vanity. You Find It In So Many Scientists. You Know, It Has Always Hurt Me To Think That Galileo Did Not Acknowledge The Work Of Kepler.

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Time And Space Are Modes By Which We Think And Not Conditions In Which We Live.

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Arrows Of Hate Have Been Aimed At Me Too, But They Have Never Hit Me, Because Somehow They Belonged To Another World With Which I Have No Connection Whatsoever.

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When You Look At Yourself From A Universal Standpoint, Something Inside Always Reminds Or Informs You That There Are Bigger And Better Things To Worry About.

Do You Believe In Immortality? No, And One Life Is Enough For Me.

Science Has Gone A Long Way Toward Helping Man To Free Himself From The Burden Of Hard Labor; Yet, Science Itself Is Not A Liberator. It Creates Means, Not Goals. It Is Up To Men To Utilize Those Means To Achieve Reasonable Goals.

The Religion Of The Future Will Be A Cosmic Religion. The Religion Which Based On Experience, Which Refuses Dogmatic. If There's Any Religion That Would Cope The Scientific Needs It Will Be Buddhism.

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Try First To Be A Man Of Value; Success Will Follow.

There Have Already Been Published By The Bucketsful Such Brazen Lies And Utter Fictions About Me That I Would Long Since Have Gone To My Grave If I Had Allowed Myself To Pay Attention To Them.

In The Midst Of Difficulty Lies Opportunity.

We Must Not Only Learn To Tolerate Our Differences. We Must Welcome Them As The Richness And Diversity Which Can Lead To True Intelligence.

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.

It Strikes Me As Unfair, And Even In Bad Taste, To Select A Few Of Them For Boundless Admiration, Attributing Superhuman Powers Of Mind And Character To Them. This Has Been My Fate, And The Contrast Between The Popular Estimate Of My Powers And Achievements And The Reality Is Simply Grotesque.

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