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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.

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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.

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

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If I Were To Start Taking Care Of My Grooming, I Would No Longer Be My Own Self... So The Hell With It... I Will Continue To Be Unconcerned About It, Which Surely Has The Advantage That I'm Left In Peace By Many A Fop Who Would Otherwise Come To See Me.

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I Live My Daydreams In Music.

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When The Solution Is Simple, God Is Answering.

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The Only Real Valuable Thing Is Intuition. The Intellect Has Little To Do On The Road To Discovery

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My Mind Is My Laboratory.

Look Deep Into Nature, And Then You Will Understand Everything Better.

In A Sailboat I Become Oblivious To Everything Else In The World.

The Consequence Was A Positively Fanatic [orgy Of] Freethinking Coupled With The Impression That Youth Is Being Deceived By The State Through Lies; It Was A Crushing Impression

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Smoke Like A Chimney, Work Like A Horse, Eat Without Thinking, Go For A Walk Only In Really Pleasant Company.

There Comes A Time When The Mind Takes A Higher Plane Of Knowledge But Can Never Prove How It Got There.

You Believe In The God Who Plays Dice, And I In Complete Law And Order In A World That Objectively Exists, And Which I, In A Wildly Speculative Way, Am Trying To Capture. ... Even The Great Initial Success Of The Quantum Theory Does Not Make Me Believe In The Fundamental Dice-game, Although I Am Well Aware That Our Younger Colleagues Interpret This As A Consequence Of Senility. No Doubt The Day Will Come When We Will See Whose Instinctive Attitude Was The Correct One.

The Foundation Of Morality Should Not Be Made Dependent On Myth Nor Tied To Any Authority Lest Doubt About The Myth Or About The Legitimacy Of The Authority Imperil The Foundation Of Sound Judgment And Action.

I Sometimes Ask Myself How It Came About That I Was The One To Develop The Theory Of Relativity. The Reason, I Think, Is That A Normal Adult Never Stops To Think About Problems Of Space And Time. These Are Things Which He Has Thought About As A Child. Bu T My Intellectual Development Was Retarded,as A Result Of Which I Began To Wonder About Space And Time Only When I Had Already Grown Up.

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Mathematics Are Well And Good But Nature Keeps Dragging Us Around By The Nose.

The Most Beautiful Experience In The World Is The Experience Of The Mysterious.

If We Knew What It Was We Were Doing, It Would Not Be Called Research, Would It?

It Has Become Appallingly Obvious That Our Technology Has Exceeded Our Humanity.

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There Are Two Ways To Live: You Can Live As If Nothing Is A Miracle; You Can Live As If Everything Is A Miracle.

Condemnation Before Investigation Is The Highest Form Of Ignorance.

I Was Supposed To Choose Apractical Profession, But This Was Simply Unbearable To Me.

My God May Not Be Your Idea Of God, But One Thing I Know Of My God He Makes Me A Humanitarian. I Am A Proud Jew Because We Gave The World The Bible And The Story Of Joseph.

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Non-comprehenders Are Often Distressed. Not You, Though-because With Good Humor You're Blessed. After All, Your Thoughts Went Like This, I Dare Say: It Was None But The Lord Who Made Us That Way.

It Is Always Delightful When A Great And Beautiful Idea Proves To Be Consonant With Reality.

So I Am Living Without Fats, Without Meat, Without Fish, But Am Feeling Quite Well This Way. It Always Seems To Me That Man Was Not Born To Be A Carnivore.

Our Task Must Be To Free Ourselves By Widening Our Circle Of Compassion To Embrace All Living Creatures And The Whole Of Nature And Its Beauty.

Stupidity Is A Personal Achievement Which Transcends National Boundaries.

An Autocratic System Of Coercion, In My Opinion, Soon Degenerates. For Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality, And I Believe It To Be An Invariable Rule That Tyrants Of Genius Are Succeeded By Scoundrels. For This Reason I Have Always Been Passionately Opposed To Systems Such As We See In Italy And Russia To-day.

If Only I Had Known, I Should Have Become A Watchmaker.

Work Is The Only Thing I Do To Escape The Corruption Of Praise.

Compounding Is The 8th Wonder Of The World.

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There Are Times When One Feels Liberated From One’s Limits And Human Imperfections. At Such Moments, We See Ourselves There, In A Little Corner Of Our Little Planet, Our Eyes Fixed In Wonder On The Cold And Yet Deep Beauty Of That Which Is Eternal, That Which Is Elusive. Life And Death Are Fused Together And There Is No Evolution, Nor Destination, There Is Only Being.

When Men Are Engaged In War And Conquest, The Tools Of Science Become As Dangerous As A Razor In The Hands Of A Child Of Three. We Must Not Condemn Man Because His Inventiveness And Patient Conquest Of The Forces Of Nature Are Being Exploited For False And Destructive Purposes. Rather, We Should Remember That The Fate Of Mankind Hinges Entirely Upon Man’s Moral Development.

Highly Developed Spirits Often Encounter Resistance From Mediocre Minds.

Physical Concepts Are Free Creations Of The Human Mind, And Are Not, However It May Seem, Uniquely Determined By The External World.

The Fairest Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious. It Is The Fundamental Emotion That Stands At The Cradle Of True Art And True Science. It Is The Source Of All True Art And Science. He Who Knows It Not And Can No Longer Wonder, No Longer Feel Amazement, Is As Good As Dead, A Snuffed-out Candle.

I Must Be Willing To Give Up What I Am In Order To Become What I Will Be.

The Constitution Only Guarantees The American People The Right To Pursue Happiness. You Have To Catch It Yourself. A Table, A Chair, A Bowl Of Fruit And A Violin; What Else Does A Man Need To Be Happy?

You Have To Color Outside The Lines Once In A While If You Want To Make Your Life A Masterpiece.

I Know That Philosophically A Murderer Is Not Responsible For His Crime, But I Prefer Not To Take Tea With Him.

We Are In The Position Of A Little Child Entering A Huge Library, Whose Walls Are Covered To The Ceiling With Books In Many Different Languages. The Child Knows That Someone Must Have Written Those Books. It Does Not Know Who Or How. It Does Not Understand The The Languages In Which They Are Written. The Child Notes A Definite Plan In The Arrangement Of The Books, A Mysterious Order, Which It Does Not Comprehend But Only Dimly Suspects.

Understanding Physics Is Child's Play When Compared To Understanding Child's Play.

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

The World Is A Dangerous Place To Live; Not Because Of The People Who Are Evil, But Because Of The People Who Don't Do Anything About It.

The World Is Not Full Of Evil Because Of Those Who Do Wrong. It Is Full Of Evil Because Of Those Who Do Nothing.

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If I Had It [life] To Do All Over Again, I'd Have Been A Plumber.

I Have Reached The Conviction That The Abolition Of The Death Penalty Is Desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability In The Event Of An Error Of Justice, 2) Detrimental Moral Influence Of The Execution Procedure On Those Who, Whether Directly Or Indirectly, Have To Do With The Procedure.

Nothing Truly Valuable Arises From Ambition Or From A Mere Sense Of Duty; It Stems Rather From Love And Devotion Towards Men And Towards Objective Things.

Einstein Didn't Speak Until He Was Four, Leading Most Of His Teachers To Believe He Was Crazy. That Is Until He Whipped Out The Theory Of Relativity. Bayum! Showed You Guys.

The Development Of General Ability For Independent Thinking And Judgment Should Always Be Placed Foremost, Not The Acquisition Of Special Knowledge.

Ethical Axioms Are Found And Tested Not Very Differently From The Axioms Of Science. Truth Is What Stands The Test Of Experience.

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.

A Person Experiences Life As Something Separated From The Rest - A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of Consciousness. Our Task Must Be To Free Ourselves From This Self-imposed Prison, And Through Compassion, To Find The Reality Of Oneness.

If You're Not Sure Why You're Doing Something, You Can Never Do Enough Of It. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.

Every Day I Remind Myself That My Inner And Outer Life Are Based On The Labors Of Other Men, Living And Dead, And That I Must Exert Myself In Order To Give In The Same Measure As I Have Received And Am Still Receiving.

Peace Cannot Be Kept By Force; It Can Only Be Achieved By Understanding.

If Men As Individuals Surrender To The Call Of Their Elementary Instincts, Avoiding Pain And Seeking Satisfaction Only For Their Own Selves, The Result For Them All Taken Together Must Be A State Of Insecurity, Of Fear, And Of Promiscuous Misery.

Measured Objectively, What A Man Can Wrest From Truth By Passionate Striving Is Utterly Infinitesimal. But The Striving Frees Us From The Bonds Of The Self And Makes Us Comrades Of Those Who Are The Best And The Greatest.

Men Like Henry George [ The Pioneer Of Land Value Taxation] Are Rare, Unfortunately. One Cannot Imagine A More Beautiful Combination Of Intellectual Keenness, Artistic Form, And Fervent Love Of Justice.

If You Are Out To Describe The Truth, Leave Elegance To The Tailor. On Being Reproached That His Formula Of Gravitation Was Longer And More Cumbersome Than Newton's.

Isn't It Strange That I Who Have Written Only Unpopular Books Should Be Such A Popular Fellow?

The History Of Scientific And Technical Discovery Teaches Us That The Human Race Is Poor In Independent And Creative Imagination. Even When The External And Scientific Requirements For The Birth Of An Idea Have Long Been There, It Generally Needs An External Stimulus To Make It Actually Happen; Man Has, So To Speak, To Stumble Right Up Against The Thing Before The Idea Comes.

[there Is] A Duty In Refusing To Cooperate In Any Undertaking That Violates The Constitutional Rights Of The Individual. This Holds In Particular For All Inquisitions That Are Concerned With The Private Life And The Political Affiliations Of The Citizens.

It's No Accident That Capitalism Has Brought With It Progress, Not Merely In Production But Also In Knowledge. Egoism And Competition Are, Alas, Stronger Forces Than Public Spirit And Sense Of Duty.

All Men Are Ignorant, Just In Different Fields.

For The Most Part We Humans Live With The False Impression Of Security And A Feeling Of Being At Home In A Seemingly Familiar And Trustworthily Physical And Human Environment. But When The Expected Course Of Everyday Life Is Interrupted, We Realize That We Are Like Shipwrecked People Trying To Keep Their Balance On A Miserable Plank In The Open Sea, Having Forgotten Where They Came From And Not Knowing Whether They Are Drifting. But Once We Fully Accept This, Life Becomes Easier And There Is No Longer Any Disappointment.

Make A Lot Of Walks To Get Healthy And Don't Read That Much But Save Yourself Some Until You're Grown Up.

Knowledge Is Limited.

I Regard Class Differences As Contrary To Justice And, In The Last Resort, Based On Force.

I Have Just Got A New Theory Of Eternity.

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God Has Given Me A Mule-like Stubbornness To Stick With A Difficult Problem And The Intuitive Powers To Conceptualize Complex Hypothetical Situations In My Mind.

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