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Someday Someone Will Write A Pathology Of Experimental Physics And Bring To Light All Those Swindles Which Subvert Our Reason, Beguile Our Judgement And, What Is Worse, Stand In The Way Of Any Practical Progress. The Phenomena Must Be Freed Once And For All From Their Grim Torture Chamber Of Empiricism, Mechanism, And Dogmatism; They Must Be Brought Before The Jury Of Man's Common Sense.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Someday Someone Will Write A Pathology Of Experimental Physics And Bring To Light All Those Swindles Which Subvert Our Reason, Beguile Our Judgement And, What Is Worse, Stand In The Way Of Any Practical Progress. The Phenomena Must Be Freed Once And For All From Their Grim Torture Chamber Of Empiricism, Mechanism, And Dogmatism; They Must Be Brought Before The Jury Of Man's Common Sense.

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Lord Byron Is Only Great As A Poet; As Soon As He Reflects He Is A Child.

Even Though The World As A Whole Progresses, Youth Must Always Start Again From The Beginning, And As Individuals Go Through The Epochs Of The World's Culture.

One Must Ask Children And Birds How Cherries And Strawberries Taste.

The Highest Happiness Of Man ... Is To Have Probed What Is Knowable And Quietly To Revere What Is Unknowable.

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The Passions Are Like Those Demons With Which Afrasahiab Sailed Down The Orus. Our Only Safety Consists In Keeping Them Asleep. If They We Are Lost.

Merely To Breathe Freely Does Not Mean To Live.

Sceptics Are Yet The Most Credulous.

A Man Avails Himself Of The Truth So Long As It Is Serviceable; But He Seizes On What Is False With A Passionate Eloquence As Soon As He Can Make A Momentary Use Of It.

Before You Can Do Something, You Must First Be Something.

To Have More, You Must First Be More.

Idea And Experience Will Never Coincide In The Center; Only Through Art And Action Are They United.

The Greatest Difficulties Lie Where We Are Not Looking For Them.

One Can Be Instructed In Society, One Is Inspired Only In Solitude.

In All Times It Is Only Individuals That Have Advanced Science, Not The Age.

Method Will Teach You To Win Time.

A State Of Affairs Which Leads To Daily Vexation Is Not The Right State.

When Ideas Fail, Words Come In Very Handy.

The Christian Religion, Though Scattered And Abroad Will In The End Gather Itself Together At The Foot Of The Cross.

If I Work Incessantly To The Last, Nature Owes Me Another Form Of Existence When The Present One Collapses.

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