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When The Number Of Factors Coming Into Play In A Phenomenological Complex Is Too Large Scientific Method In Most Cases Fails. One Need Only Think Of The Weather, In Which Case The Prediction Even For A Few Days Ahead Is Impossible.

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When The Number Of Factors Coming Into Play In A Phenomenological Complex Is Too Large Scientific Method In Most Cases Fails. One Need Only Think Of The Weather, In Which Case The Prediction Even For A Few Days Ahead Is Impossible.

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The Human Spirit Must Prevail Over Technology.

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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.

A Mathematical Equation Stands Forever.

Mathematical Equations

The Most Aggravating Thing About The Younger Generation Is That I No Longer Belong To It.

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The Number Of Natural Hypothesis That Can Explain Any Given Phenomena Is Infinite.

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

Put Your Hand On A Hot Stove For A Minute And It Seems Like An Hour. Sit With A Pretty Girl For An Hour, And It Seems Like A Minute.

But In Physics I Soon Learned To Scent Out The Paths That Led To The Depths, And To Disregard Everything Else, All The Many Things That Clutter Up The Mind, And Divert It From The Essential. The Hitch In This Was, Of Course, The Fact That One Had To Cram All This Stuff Into One's Mind For The Examination, Whether One Liked It Or Not.

I Want To Go When I Want. It Is Tasteless To Prolong Life Artificially. I Have Done My Share, It Is Time To Go. I Will Do It Elegantly.

God Gave Me The Stubbornness Of A Mule And A Fairly Keen Scent.

But The Creative Principle Resides In Mathematics. In A Certain Sense, Therefore, I Hold True That Pure Thought Can Grasp Reality, As The Ancients Dreamed.

I Am Content In My Later Years. I Have Kept My Good Humor And Take Neither Myself Nor The Next Person Seriously.

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.

Gravitation Is Not Responsible For People Falling In Love.

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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.

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.

I Feel That You Are Justified In Looking Into The Future With True Assurance, Because You Have A Mode Of Living In Which We Find The Joy Of Life And The Joy Of Work Harmoniously Combined. Added To This Is The Spirit Of Ambition Which Pervades Your Very Being, And Seems To Make The Day's Work Like A Happy Child At Play.

If You Want To Live A Happy Life, Tie It To A Goal, Not To People Or Objects.

Coincidences Are God's Way Of Staying Anonymous.

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The Most Superior Of Scientific Goals Is To Embrace A Maximum Of Experiment With A Minimum Of Hypotheses.

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.

Nothing In The World Makes People So Afraid As The Influence Of Independent-minded People.

Weakness Of Attitude Becomes Weakness Of Character.

But Their Intervention Makes Our Acts To Serve Ever Less Merely The Immediate Claims Of Our Instincts.

Condemnation Without Investigation Is The Height Of Ignorance

But Nature Did Not Deem It Her Business To Make The Discovery Of Her Laws Easy For Us.

Keep On Sowing Your Seed, For You Never Know Which Will Grow - Perhaps It All Will.

When I Was Still A Rather Precocious Young Man, I Already Realized Most Vividly The Futility Of The Hopes And Aspirations That Most Men Pursue Throughout Their Lives.

Futility Of Life

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.

The Individual Who Has Experienced Solitude Will Not Easily Become A Victim Of Mass Suggestion.

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.

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