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Whatever There Is Of God And Goodness In The Universe, It Must Work Itself Out And Express Itself Through Us. We Cannot Stand Aside And Let God Do It.

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Whatever There Is Of God And Goodness In The Universe, It Must Work Itself Out And Express Itself Through Us. We Cannot Stand Aside And Let God Do It.

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No Problem Is Ever Solved In The Same Consciousness Thas Was Used To Create It.

We Are Part Of The Whole Which We Call The Universe, But It Is An Optical Delusion Of Our Mind That We Think We Are Separate. This Separateness Is Like A Prison For Us. Our Job Is To Widen The Circle Of Our Compassion So We Feel Connected With All People And Situations.

But Without Deeper Reflection One Knows From Daily Life That One Exists For Other People--first Of All For Those Upon Whose Smiles And Well-being Our Own Happiness Is Wholly Dependent, And Then For The Many, Unknown To Us, To Whose Destinies We Are Bound By The Ties Of Sympathy.

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Nature Shows Us Only The Tail Of The Lion. But There Is No Doubt In My Mind That The Lion Belongs With It Even If He Cannot Reveal Himself To The Eye All At Once Because Of His Huge Dimension.

Jesus Is Too Colossal For The Pen Of Phrasemongers, However Artful. No Man Can Dispose Of Christianity With A Bon Mot

Political Leaders Or Governments Owe Their Position Partly To Force And Partly To Popular Election. They Cannot Be Regarded As Representative Of Best Elements, Morally Or Intellectually, In Their Respective Nations.

If You Can't Explain What You Are Doing To A Nine-year-old, Then Either You Still Don't Understand It Very Well, Or It's Not All That Worthwile In The First Place.

I Have No Extraordinary Ability. I'm Simply An Inquisitive Individual.

School Failed Me, And I Failed The School. It Bored Me. The Teachers Behaved Like Feldwebel (sergeants). I Wanted To Learn What I Wanted To Know, But They Wanted Me To Learn For The Exam. What I Hated Most Was The Competitive System There, And Especially Sports. Because Of This, I Wasn't Worth Anything, And Several Times They Suggested I Leave.

Great Spirits Have Always Found Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds. The Latter Cannot Understand It When A Man Does Not Thoughtlessly Submit To Hereditary Prejudices But Honestly And Courageously Uses His Intelligence.

The Stupid Are Invincible.

Nationalism Is An Infantile Disease. It Is The Measles Of Mankind.

Let Every Man Judge According To His Own Standards, By What He Has Himself Read, Not By What Others Tell Him.

Future Medicine Will Be The Medicine Of Frequencies.

The Best That Gauss Has Given Us Was Likewise An Exclusive Production. If He Had Not Created His Geometry Of Surfaces, Which Served Riemann As A Basis, It Is Scarcely Conceivable That Anyone Else Would Have Discovered It. I Do Not Hesitate To Confess That To A Certain Extent A Similar Pleasure May Be Found By Absorbing Ourselves In Questions Of Pure Geometry.

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I Thought Of That While Riding My Bicycle.

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I Am A Determinist. As Such, I Do Not Believe In Free Will...practically, I Am, Nevertheless, Compelled To Act As If Freedom Of The Will Existed. If I Wish To Live In A Civilized Community, I Must Act As If Man Is A Responsible Being.

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Nature Conceals Her Mystery By Her Essential Grandeur.

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In Science, Moreover, The Work Of The Individual Is So Bound Up With That Of His Scientific Predecessors And Contemporaries That It Appears Almost As An Impersonal Product Of His Generation.

[ernest Rutherford Is]...a Second Newton.

Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Opposition From Mediocre Minds. The Mediocre Mind Is Incapable Of Understanding The Man Who Refuses To Bow Blindly To Conventional Prejudices And Chooses Instead To Express His Opinions Courageously And Honestly.

Discussion And Argument Are Essential Parts Of Science; The Greatest Talent Is The Ability To Strip A Theory Until The Simple Basic Idea Emerges With Clarity.

The Ideals Which Have Always Shone Before Me And Filled Me With The Joy Of Living Are Goodness, Beauty, And Truth. To Make A Goal Of Comfort Or Happiness Has Never Appealed To Me; A System Of Ethics Built On This Basis Would Be Sufficient Only For A Herd Of Cattle.

The World Will Not Be Destroyed By Those Who Do Evil, But By Those Who Watch Them Without Doing Anything.

No Amount Of Experimentation Can Ever Prove Me Right; A Single Experiment Can Prove Me Wrong.

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You Have To Learn The Rules Of The Game. And Then You Have To Play Better Than Anyone Else.

During The Last Century, And Part Of The One Before, It Was Widely Held That There Was An Unreconcilable Conflict Between Knowledge And Belief.

[i] Must Seek In The Stars That Which Was Denied [to Me] On Earth.

Generations To Come Will Find It Difficult To Believe That A Man Such As Gandhi Ever Walked The Face Of This Earth.

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Degeneracy Follows Every Autocratic System Of Violence, For Violence Inevitably Attracts Moral Inferiors. Time Has Proven That Illustrious Tyrants Are Succeeded By Scoundrels.

Don't Do Anything That Goes Against Your Conscience, Even If Your Country Says So.

Logic Will Get You From A To B. Imagination Will Take You Everywhere.

Peace Cannot Be Kept By Force. It Can Only Be Achieved By Understanding. You Cannot Subjugate A Nation Forcibly Unless You Wipe Out Every Man, Woman, And Child. Unless You Wish To Use Such Drastic Measures, You Must Find A Way Of Settling Your Disputes Without Resort To Arms.

Manager Solves Problems, Leader Prevents Them.

From The Standpoint Of Daily Life, However, There Is One Thing We Do Know: That We Are Here For The Sake Of Each Other - Above All For Those Upon Whose Smile And Well-being Our Own Happiness Depends, And Also For The Countless Unknown Souls With Whose Fate We Are Connected By A Bond Of Sympathy. Many Times A Day I Realize How Much My Own Outer And Inner Life Is Built Upon The Labors Of My Fellow Men, Both Living And Dead, And How Earnestly I Must Exert Myself In Order To Give In Return As Much As I Have Received.

Certainly There Are Things Worth Believing. I Believe In The Brotherhood Of Man And The Uniqueness Of The Individual. But If You Ask Me To Prove What I Believe, I Can't. You Know Them To Be True But You Could Spend A Whole Lifetime Without Being Able To Prove Them. The Mind Can Proceed Only So Far Upon What It Knows And Can Prove. There Comes A Point Where The Mind Takes A Leap—call It Intuition Or What You Will—and Comes Out Upon A Higher Plane Of Knowledge, But Can Never Prove How It Got There. All Great Discoveries Have Involved Such A Leap.

Few People Are Capable Of Expressing With Equanimity Opinions Which Differ From The Prejudices Of Their Social Environment. Most People Are Even Incapable Of Forming Such Opinions.

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

Strange Is Our Situation Here Upon Earth.

It Is Important For The Common Good To Foster Individuality: For Only The Individual Can Produce The New Ideas Which The Community Needs For Its Continuous Improvement And Requirements - Indeed, To Avoid Sterility And Petrification

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When You Sit With A Nice Girl For Two Hours, It Seems Like Two Minutes; When You Sit On A Hot Stove For Two Minutes, It Seems Like Two Hours. That's Relativity.

Germany Had The Misfortune Of Becoming Poisoned, First Because Of Plenty, And Then Because Of Want.

Bureaucracy Is The Death Of All Sound Work.

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But There Is Another Reason For The High Repute Of Mathematics: It Is Mathematics That Offers The Exact Natural Sciences A Certain Measure Of Security Which, Without Mathematics, They Could Not Attain.

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

Imagination Is More Valuable Than Information.

Curiosity Is A Delicate Little Plant That, Aside From Stimulation, Stands Mainly In Need Of Freedom.

It Is My Conviction That Killing Under The Cloak Of War Is Nothing But An Act Of Murder.

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In Order To Be An Immaculate Member Of A Flock Of Sheep, One Must Above All Be A Sheep Oneself.

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But If The Longing For The Achievement Of The Goal Is Powerfully Alive Within Us, Then Shall We Not Lack The Strength To Find The Means For Reaching The Goal And For Translating It Into Deeds.

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Those Who Have An Interest In Keeping The Machinery Of War Going Will Stop At Nothing To Make Public Opinion Subservient To Their Murderous Ends.

At The Same Time, As Social Beings, We Are Moved In The Relations With Our Fellow Beings By Such Feelings As Sympathy, Pride, Hate, Need For Power, Pity, And So On.

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.

I Cannot Imagine A God Who Rewards And Punishes The Objects Of His Creation And Is But A Reflection Of Human Frailty.

If You Feed Your Mind As Often As You Feed Your Stomach, Then You'll Never Have To Worry About Feeding Your Stomach Or A Roof Over Your Head Or Clothes On Your Back.

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

Common Sense Needs Constant Reappraisal.

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The Truth Of A Theory Can Never Be Proven, For One Never Knows If Future Experience Will Contradict Its Conclusions.

I Never Thought That Others Would Take My Theories So Much More Seriously Than I Did.

The Theory Must Not Contradict Empirical Facts.

A New Idea Comes Suddenly And In A Rather Intuitive Way, But Intuition Is Nothing But The Outcome Of Earlier Intellectual Experience.

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The Truth Of A Theory Is In Your Mind, Not In Your Eyes.

Example Isn't Another Way To Teach, It Is The Only Way To Teach.

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I'm More Interested In The Future Than In The Past, Because The Future Is Where I Intend To Live.

People Like Us, Who Believe In Physics, Know That The Distinction Between Past, Present, And Future Is Only A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion.

There Is No Greater Satisfaction For A Just And Well-meaning Person Than The Knowledge That He Has Devoted His Best Energies To The Service Of The Good Cause.

Since Our Inner Experiences Consist Of Reproductions, And Combinations Of Sensory Impressions, The Concept Of A Soul Without A Body Seem To Me To Be Empty And Devoid Of Meaning.

The Finest Emotion Of Which We Are Capable Is The Mystic Emotion. Herein Lies The Germ Of All Art And All True Science. Anyone To Whom This Feeling Is Alien, Who Is No Longer Capable Of Wonderment And Lives In A State Of Fear Is A Dead Man.

A Clever Person Solves A Problem. A Wise Person Avoids It.

I Never Commit To Memory Anything That Can Easily Be Looked Up In A Book

I Am Strongly Drawn To The Simple Life And Am Often Oppressed By The Feeling That I Am Engrossing An Unnecessary Amount Of The Labour Of My Fellow Men. I Regard Class Differences As Contrary To Justice And, In The Last Resort, Based On Force. I Also Consider That Plain Living Is Good For Everybody, Physically And Mentally.

...and Knowledge Is One Of The Finest Attributes Of Man - Though Often It Is Most Loudly Voiced By Those Who Strive For It The Least.

Betterment Of Conditions The World Over Is Not Essentially Dependent On Scientific Knowledge But On The Fulfillment Of Human Traditions And Ideals.

Each Ray Of Light Moves In The Coordinate System 'at Rest' With The Definite, Constant Velocity V Independent Of Whether This Ray Of Light Is Emitted By A Body At Rest Or A Body In Motion.

The Individual Feels The Futility Of Human Desires And Aims And The Sublimity And Marvelous Order Which Reveal Themselves Both In Nature And In The World Of Thought.

Why Do People Speak Of Great Men In Terms Of Nationality? Great Germans, Great Englishmen? Goethe Always Protested Against Being Called A German Poet. Great Men Are Simply Men And Are Not To Be Considered From The Point Of View Of Nationality, Nor Should The Environment In Which They Were Brought Up Be Taken Into Account.

The Religion Of The Future Will Be Cosmic Religion. It Will Transcend Personal God And Avoid Dogma And Theology.

If I Give You A Pfennig, You Will Be One Pfennig Richer And I'll Be One Pfennig Poorer. But If I Give You An Idea, You Will Have A New Idea, But I Shall Still Have It Too.

Since I Have Introduced This Term I Had Always A Bad Conscience. . . . I Cannot Help To Feel It Strongly And I Am Unable To Believe That Such An Ugly Thing Should Be Realized In Nature.

When You Trip Over Love, It Is Easy To Get Up. But When You Fall In Love, It Is Impossible To Stand Again.

God May Be Subtle, But He Isn't Plain Mean.

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.

There Are Two Different Conceptions About The Nature Of The Universe: (1) The World As A Unity Dependent On Humanity; (2) The World As A Reality Independent Of The Human Factor.

There's Something To Be Said For Relatives...it Has To Be Said Because It's Unprintable!

Reading, After A Certain Age, Diverts The Mind Too Much From Its Creative Pursuits. Any Man Who Reads Too Much And Uses His Own Brain Too Little Falls Into Lazy Habits Of Thinking.

The Analogy I Like Is This Imagine Being Able To See The World But You Are Deaf, And Then Suddenly Someone Gives You The Ability To Hear Things As Well - You Get An Extra Dimension Of Perception.

I Agree With Your Remark About Loving Your Enemy As Far As Actions Are Concerned. But For Me The Cognitive Basis Is The Trust In An Unrestricted Causality. 'i Cannot Hate Him, Because He Must Do What He Does.' That Means For Me More Spinoza Than The Prophets.

Life Isn't Worth Living, Unless It Is Lived For Someone Else.

The True Value Of A Human Being Can Be Found In The Degree To Which He Has Attained Liberation From The Self.

The Release Of Atomic Power Has Changed Everything Except Our Way Of Thinking ... The Solution To This Problem Lies In The Heart Of Mankind. If Only I Had Known, I Should Have Become A Watchmaker. (1945)

I Want To Know All God's Thoughts.

... We Will Hope That Future Historians Will Explain The Morbid Symptoms Of Present-day Society As The Childhood Ailments Of An Aspiring Humanity, Due Entirely To The Excessive Speed At Which Civilization Was Advancing.

I Live My Daydreams In Music.

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What Lead Me More Or Less Directly To The Special Theory Of Relativity Was The Conviction That The Electromotive Force Acting On A Body In Motion In A Magnetic Field Was Nothing Else But An Electric Field.

Those Who Staying With The Wrong Reward,(eg. Stay In Comfort Zone, Etc.), Long Enough Will Get Problem.

Feeling And Longing Are The Motive Forces Behind All Human Endeavor And Human Creations.

In Matters Of Truth And Justice, There Is No Difference Between Large And Small Problems, For Issues Concerning The Treatment Of People Are All The Same.

Learning Is The Beginning Of Wealth. Searching And Learning Is Where The Miracle Process All Begins. The Great Breakthrough In Your Life Comes When You Realize It That You Can Learn Anything You Need To Learn To Accomplish Any Goal That You Set For Yourself. This Means There Are No Limits On What You Can Be, Have Or Do.

No Scientist Thinks In Formulae.

The World We Have Made Is A Result Of The Level Of Thinking We Have Done Thus Far.

We Must Recognize What In Our Accepted Tradition Is Damaging To Our Fate And Dignity-and Shape Our Lives Accordingly.

I Must Seem Like An Ostrich Who Forever Burries Its Head In The Relativistic Sands In Order Not To Face The Evil Quanta.

By Academic Freedom I Understand The Right To Search For Truth And To Publish And Teach What One Holds To Be True. This Right Also Implies A Duty: One Must Not Conceal Any Part Of What One Has Recognized To Be True.

Development Of Western Science Is Based On Two Great Achievements: The Invention Of The Formal Logical System (in Euclidean Geometry) By The Greek Philosophers, And The Discovery Of The Possibility To Find Out Causal Relationships By Systematic Experiment (during The Renaissance). In My Opinion, One Has Not To Be Astonished That The Chinese Sages Have Not Made These Steps. The Astonishing Thing Is That These Discoveries Were Made At All.

Nothing Is More Destructive Of Respect For The Government And The Law Of The Land Than Passing Laws Which Cannot Be Enforced.

From Discord, Find Harmony.

I Was Just More Stubborn And More Passionate Than Most About Physics.

There Two Things That Are Infinite, Human Stupidity And The Universe, I Don't Know About The Universe

My Political Ideal Is Democracy. Let Every Man Be Respected As An Individual And No Man Idolized.

People Should Be More Like Animals . . . They Should Be More Intuitive; They Should Not Be Too Conscious Of What They Do While They Do It.

Creativity Is Intelligence Having Fun.

Dostoevsky Gives Me More Than Any Scientist, More Than Gauss.

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.

This Is A Time, When There Seems To Be A Particular Need For Friends Of Wisdom And Truth To Join Together.

Imagination Encircles The World.

Science Is The Attempt To Make The Chaotic Diversity Of Our Sense-experience Correspond To A Logically Uniform System Of Thought.

In Talking About Human Rights Today, We Are Referring Primarily To The Following Demands: Protection Of The Individual Against Arbitrary Infringement By Other Individuals Or By The Government; The Right To Work And To Adequate Earnings From Work; Freedom Of Discussion And Teaching; Adequate Participation Of The Individual In The Formation Of His Government. These Human Rights Are Nowadays Recognised Theoretically, Although, By Abundant Use Of Formalistic, Legal Manoeuvres, They Are Being Violated To A Much Greater Extent Than Even A Generation Ago.

Without Deep Reflection One Knows From Daily Life That One Exists For Other People.

What Is The Meaning Of Human Life, Or, For That Matter, Of The Life Of Any Creature? To Know The Answer To This Question Means To Be Religious. You Ask: Does It Make Any Sense, Then, To Pose This Question? I Answer: The Man Who Regards His Fellow Creatures As Meaningless Is Not Merely Unhappy But Hardly Fit For Life.

What Physics Looks For: The Simplest Possible System Of Thought Which Will Bind Together The Observed Facts.

Men Marry Women With The Hope They Will Never Change. Women Marry Men With The Hope They Will Change. Invariably They Are Both Disappointed.

The World As We Have Created It Is A Process Of Our Thinking. It Cannot Be Changed Without Changing Our Thinking.

The Scientific Theorist Is Not To Be Envied. For Nature, Or More Precisely Experiment, Is An Exorable And Not Very Friendly Judge Of His Work. It Never Says "yes" To A Theory. In The Most Favorable Cases It Says "maybe," And In The Great Majority Of Cases Simply "no." If An Experiment Agrees With A Theory It Means For The Latter "maybe," And If It Does Not Agree It Means "no." Probably Every Theory Will Some Day Experience Its "no" - Most Theories, Soon After Conception.

Be A Voice Not An Echo.

The Mind Can Proceed Only So Far Upon What It Knows And Can Prove. There Comes A Point Where The Mind Takes A Higher Plane Of Knowledge, But Can Never Prove How It Got There. All Great Discoveries Have Involved Such A Leap

I Have Lived To Prove Thoreau's Contention That A Man Is Rich In Proportion To The Number Of Things Which He Can Afford To Let Alone.

I Cannot Imagine A God Who Rewards And Punishes The Objects Of His Creation, Whose Purposes Are Modeled After Our Own -- A God, In Short, Who Is But A Reflection Of Human Frailty. Neither Can I Believe That The Individual Survives The Death Of His Body, Although Feeble Souls Harbor Such Thoughts Through Fear Or Ridiculous Egotisms.

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

True Art Is Characterized By An Irresistible Urge In The Creative Artist.

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

When A Man Is Sufficiently Motivated, Discipline Will Take Care Of Itself.

I Always Have A High Regard For The Individual And Have An Insuperable Distaste For Violence And Clubmanship. All These Motives Made Me Into A Passionate Pacifist And Anti-militarist. I Am Against Any Nationalism, Even In The Guise Of Mere Patriotism. Privileges Based On Position And Property Have Always Seemed To Me Unjust And Pernicious, As Did Any Exaggerated Personality Cult.

We Must Remember That We Do Not Observe Nature As It Actually Exists, But Nature Exposed To Our Methods Of Perception. The Theories Determine What We Can Or Cannot Observe...reality Is An Illusion, Albeit A Persistent One.

When I Was Young, All I Wanted And Expected From Life Was To Sit Quietly In Some Corner Doing My Work Without The Public Paying Attention To Me. And Now See What Has Become Of Me.

Most Teachers Waste Their Time By Asking Question Which Are Intended To Discover What A Pupil Does Not Know Whereas The True Art Of Questioning Has For Its Purpose To Discover What Pupils Knows Or Is Capable Of Knowing.

It Is Open To Every Man To Choose The Direction Of His Striving; And Also Every Man May Draw Comfort From Lessing's Fine Saying, That The Search For Truth Is More Precious Than Its Possession.

No Problem Can Be Solved From The Same Level Of Consciousness That Created It.

I Have Always Disliked The Fierce Competitive Spirit Embodied In That Highly Intellectual Game.

The Bitter And The Sweet Come From The Outside, The Hard From Within, From One's Own Efforts.

Genius Abhors Consensus Because When Consensus Is Reached, Thinking Stops. Stop Nodding Your Head.

As Long As I Have Any Choice In The Matter, I Shall Live Only In A Country Where Civil Liberty, Tolerance And Equality Of All Citizens Before The Law Prevail.

There Is Nothing Divine About Morality; It Is A Purely Human Affair. If People Are Good Only Because They Fear Punishment, And Hope For Reward, Then We Are A Sorry Lot Indeed. What The Individual Can Do Is To Give A Fine Example, And To Have The Courage To Uphold Ethical Values .. In A Society Of Cynics.

A Man Who Is Convinced Of The Truth Of His Religion Is Indeed Never Tolerant. At The Least, He Is To Feel Pity For The Adherent Of Another Religion But Usually It Does Not Stop There. The Faithful Adherent Of A Religion Will Try First Of All To Convince Those That Believe In Another Religion And Usually He Goes On To Hatred If He Is Not Successful. However, Hatred Then Leads To Persecution When The Might Of The Majority Is Behind It.

It Is Also A Natural Thing For A Serious Young Man That He Should Form For Himself As Precise An Idea As Possible Of The Goal Of His Desires.

One Must Take What Nature Gives As One Finds It.

Dear Habicht, / Such A Solemn Air Of Silence Has Descended Between Us That I Almost Feel As If I Am Committing A Sacrilege When I Break It Now With Some Inconsequential Babble... / What Are You Up To, You Frozen Whale, You Smoked, Dried, Canned Piece Of Soul...?

I Fully Agree With You About The Significance And Educational Value Of As Well As History And Philosophy Of Science. So Many People Today - And Even Professional - Seem To Me Like Someone Who Has Seen Thousands Of Trees But Has Never Seen A Forest. A Knowledge Of The Historic And Philosophical Background Gives That Kind Of Independence From Prejudices Of His Generation From Which Most Scientists Are Suffering. This Independence Created By Philosophical Insight Is - In My Opinion - The Mark Of Distinction Between A Mere Artisan Or Specialist And A Real Seeker After Truth.

Is It Not Better For A Man To Die For A Cause In Which He Believes, Such As Peace, Than To Suffer For A Cause In Which He Does Not Believe, Such As War?

Blind Belief In Authority Is The Greatest Enemy Of Truth.

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

We Cannot Despair Of Humanity, Since We Ourselves Are Human Beings.

What A Sad Era When It Is Easier To Smash An Atom Than A Prejudice.

Nature Hides Her Secrets Because Of Her Essential Loftiness, But Not By Means Of Ruse.

Common Sense Invents And Constructs No Less Than Its Own Field Than Science Does In Its Domain. It Is, However, In The Nature Of Common Sense Not To Be Aware Of This Situation.

I Didn't Arrive At My Understanding Of The Fundamental Laws Of The Universe Through My Rational Mind.

If I Would Follow Your Advice And Jesus Could Perceive It, He, As A Jewish Teacher, Surely Would Not Approve Of Such Behavior.

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

The American Lives Even More For His Goals, For The Future, Than The European. Life For Him Is Always Becoming, Never Being.

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

The Most Powerful Force In The World Is Compound Interest.

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