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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. Nevertheless, No One Doubts That We Are Confronted With A Causal Connection Whose Causal Components Are In The Main Known To Us. Occurrences In This Domain Are Beyond The Reach Of Exact Prediction Because Of The Variety Of Factors In Operation, Not Because Of Any Lack Of Order In Nature.

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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. Nevertheless, No One Doubts That We Are Confronted With A Causal Connection Whose Causal Components Are In The Main Known To Us. Occurrences In This Domain Are Beyond The Reach Of Exact Prediction Because Of The Variety Of Factors In Operation, Not Because Of Any Lack Of Order In Nature.

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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.

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My Sailing System Set Sail, Make It Fast, No Thoughts Of Energy Or Velocity, Loll Back, Let Boat Drift.

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A Woman Is Always Right. But Sometimes Confused Or May Be Misinformed Or Rude Or Stubborn Or Senseless Or Unchangeable About Her Opinions Or Even Down Right Stupid At Times But Never Wrong... She Is Always Right.

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There Could Be No Greater Calamity Than A Permanent Discord Between Us And The Arab People. Despite The Great Wrong That Has Been Done Us, We Must Strive For A Just And Lasting Compromise With The Arab People Let Us Recall That In Former Times No People Lived In Greater Friendship With Us Than The Ancestors Of These Arabs.

Science Can Only State What Is, Not What Should Be.

I Never Think Of The Future - It Comes Soon Enough.

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My Scientific Work Is Motivated By An Irresistible Longing To Understand The Secrets Of Nature And By No Other Feeling. My Love For Justice And Striving To Contribute Towards The Improvement Of Human Conditions Are Quite Independent From My Scientific Interests.

The Physicist's Greatest Tool Is His Wastebasket.

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.

Not Until The Creation And Maintenance Of Decent Conditions Of Life For All Men Are Recognized And Accepted As A Common Obligation Of All Men And All Countries — Not Until Then Shall We, With A Certain Degree Of Justification, Be Able To Speak Of Mankind As Civilized.

If I Had Only One Hour To Save The World, I Would Spend Fifty-five Minutes Defining The Problem, And Only Five Minutes Finding The Solution.

Everything Is Energy And That’s All There Is To It.

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

I Never Teach My Pupils, I Only Attempt To Provide The Conditions In Which They Can Learn.

The Only Thing That Interferes With My Learning Is My Education.

This Crippling Of Individuals I Consider The Worst Evil Of Capitalism. Our Whole Educational System Suffers From This Evil. An Exaggerated Competitive Attitude Is Inculcated Into The Student, Who Is Trained To Worship Acquisitive Success As A Preparation For His Future.

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

Making Mistakes

Time And Space Are Not Conditions Of Existence, Time And Space Is A Model For Thinking

Epistemology Without Contact With Science Becomes An Empty Scheme. Science Without Epistemology Is-insofar As It Is Thinkable At All-primitive And Muddled.

If The Bees Disappear, Man Would Have Only Four Years Of Life Left.

Belief In An External World Independent Of The Perceiving Subject Is The Basis Of All Natural Science.

Do You Believe In Miracles? Well, You Should. In Fact, Life Itself Is A Big Miracle. There Are So Many Things That Are Beyond Our Understanding. There Are Two Ways To Live: You Can Live As If Nothing Is A Miracle; You Can Live As If Everything Is A Miracle.

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

Each Of Us Is Here For A Brief Sojourn; For What Purpose He Knows Not, Though He Sometimes Thinks He Senses It. But Without Deeper Reflection One Knows From Daily Life That One Exists For Other People.

If One Studies Too Zealously, One Easily Loses His Pants.

How Many People Are Trapped In Their Everyday Habits: Part Numb, Part Frightened, Part Indifferent? To Have A Better Life We Must Keep Choosing How We Are Living.

What Is This Frog And Mouse Battle Among The Mathematicians?

Raffiniert Ist Der Herr Gott, Aber Boshaft Ist Er Nicht. God Is Subtle, But He Is Not Malicious.

My Passionate Sense Of Social Justice And Social Responsibility Has Always Contrasted Oddly With My Pronounced Lack Of Need For Direct Contact With Other Human Beings And Human Communities. I Am Truly A 'lone Traveler' And Have Never Belonged To My Country, My Home, My Friends, Or Even My Immediate Family, With My Whole Heart; In The Face Of All These Ties, I Have Never Lost A Sense Of Distance And A Need For Solitude.

A World Government With Powers Adequate To Guarantee Security Is Not A Remote Ideal For The Distant Future. It Is An Urgent Necessity If Our Civilization Is To Survive.

World Government

Balance In Large Measure Is Knowing The Things That Can Be Changed, Putting Them In Proper Perspective, And Recognizing The Things That Will Not Change."

An Empty Stomach Is Not A Good Political Adviser.

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

Never Memorize What You Can Look Up In A Book.

Solitude Is Painful When One Is Young, But Delightful When One Is More Mature.

Nor Do I Take Into Account A Danger Of Starting A Chain Reaction Of A Scope Great Enough To Destroy Part Or All Of The Planet...but It Is Not Necessary To Imagine The Earth Being Destroyed Like A Nova By A Stellar Explosion To Understand Vividly The Grow Ing Scope Of Atomic War And To Recognize That Unless Another War Is Prevented It Is Likely To Bring Destruction On A Scale Never Before Held Possible, And Even Now Hardly Conceived, And That Little Civilization Would Survive It.

The War Is Won, But The Peace Is Not.

I Know Quite Certainly That I Myself Have No Special Talent; Curiosity, Obsession And Dogged Endurance, Combined With Self-criticism, Have Brought Me To My Ideas.

Scientific Research Can Reduce Superstition By Encouraging People To Think And View Things In Terms Of Cause And Effect.

While It Is True That Science, To The Extent Of Its Grasp Of Causative Connections, May Reach Important Conclusions As To The Compatibility And Incompatibility Of Goals And Evaluations, The Independent And Fundamental Definitions Regarding Goals And Values Remain Beyond Science's Reach.

When I Was A Fairly Precocious Young Man I Became Thoroughly Impressed With The Futility Of The Hopes And Strivings That Chase Most Men Restlessly Through Life. Moreover, I Soon Discovered The Cruelty Of That Chase, Which In Those Years Was Much More Carefully Covered Up By Hypocrisy And Glittering Words Than Is The Case Today. By The Mere Existence Of His Stomach Everyone Was Condemned To Participate In That Chase. The Stomach Might Well Be Satisfied By Such Participation, But Not Man Insofar As He Is A Thinking And Feeling Being.

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.

When You Look At Yourself From A Universal Standpoint, Something Inside Always Reminds Or Informs You That There Are Bigger And Better Things To Worry About.

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