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The Religious Geniuses Of All Ages Have Been Distinguished By This Kind Of Religious Feeling, Which Knows No Dogma And No God Conceived In Man's Image; So That There Can Be No Church Whose Central Teachings Are Based On It. Hence It Is Precisely Among The Heretics Of Every Age That We Find Men Who Were Filled With This Highest Kind Of Religious Feeling And Were In Many Cases Regarded By Their Contemporaries As Atheists, Sometimes Also As Saints. Looked At In This Light, Men Like Democritus, Francis Of Assisi, And Spinoza Are Closely Akin To One Another.

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The Religious Geniuses Of All Ages Have Been Distinguished By This Kind Of Religious Feeling, Which Knows No Dogma And No God Conceived In Man's Image; So That There Can Be No Church Whose Central Teachings Are Based On It. Hence It Is Precisely Among The Heretics Of Every Age That We Find Men Who Were Filled With This Highest Kind Of Religious Feeling And Were In Many Cases Regarded By Their Contemporaries As Atheists, Sometimes Also As Saints. Looked At In This Light, Men Like Democritus, Francis Of Assisi, And Spinoza Are Closely Akin To One Another.

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Strange Is Our Situation Here On Earth. Each Of Us Comes For A Short Visit, Not Knowing Why, Yet Sometimes Seeming To Divine A Purpose.

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The Religion Of The Future Will Be A Cosmic Religion. It Should Transcend A Personal God And Avoid Dogmas And Theology. Covering Both The Natural And The Spiritual, It Should Be Based On A Religious Sense Arising From The Experience Of All Things, Natural And Spiritual, As A Meaningful Unity. Buddhism Answers This Description.

It Would Be Foolish To Despise Tradition. But With Our Growing Self-consciousness And Increasing Intelligence We Must Begin To Control Tradition And Assume A Critical Attitude Toward It, If Human Relations Are Ever To Change For The Better.

Learn From Yesterday, Live For Today, Hope For Tomorrow. The Important Thing Is Not To Stop Questioning.

Philosophy Is Empty If It Isn't Based On Science. Science Discovers, Philosophy Interprets.

A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing. So Is A Lot.

To Understand The World One Must Not Be Worrying About One's Self.

A Single Bomb Of This Type, Carried By Boat And Exploded In A Port, Might Very Well Destroy The Whole Port, Together With Some Of The Surrounding Territory.

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

What A Deep Faith In The Rationality Of The Structure Of The World And What A Longing To Understand Even A Small Glimpse Of The Reason Revealed In The World There Must Have Been In Kepler And Newton To Enable Them To Unravel The Mechanism Of The Heavens In Long Years Of Lonely Work!

No One Does Anything Right In Life, Until They Realize That They Are Making A Mistake

Making Mistakes

A Human Being Is Part Of A Whole Called By Us The Universe.

Parts Of A Whole

Great Spiritual

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The Wireless Telegraph Is Not Difficult To Understand. The Ordinary Telegraph Is Like A Very Long Cat. You Pull The Tail In New York, And It Meows In Los Angeles. The Wireless Is The Same, Only Without The Cat.

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

It Is True That The Grasping Of Truth Is Not Possible Without Empirical Basis. However, The Deeper We Penetrate And The More Extensive And Embracing Our Theories Become The Less Empirical Knowledge Is Needed To Determine Those Theories.

The Definition Of Genius Is Taking The Complex And Making It Simple.

Out Of Complexity, Find Simplicity!

A Society's Competitive Advantage Will Come Not From How Well Its Schools Teach The Multiplication And Periodic Tables, But From How Well They Stimulate Imagination And Creativity.

Man Would Indeeded Be In A Poor Way If He Had To Be Restrained By Fear Of Punishment And Hope Of Reward After Death.

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Science Is A Wonderful Thing If One Does Not Have To Earn One's Living At It.

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True Knowledge Comes With Deep Understanding Of A Topic And Its Inner Workings.

Deep Understanding

Anyone Can Repeat A Technical Explanation They Read In A Text-book Or Blog Post.

I Soon Learned To Scent Out That Which Was Able To Lead To Fundamentals And To Turn Aside From Everything Else, From The Multitude Of Things Which Clutter Up The Mind And Divert It From The Essential.

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If You Want Different Results, Do Not Do The Same Things.

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The Hardest Thing To Understand In The World Is The Income Tax.

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