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| 1. | A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. |
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| 2. | A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. |
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| 3. | A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. |
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| 4. | A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? |
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| 5. | A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? |
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| 6. | All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. |
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| 7. | All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. |
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| 8. | All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. |
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| 9. | All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them. |
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| 10. | All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. |
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| 11. | An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. |
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| 12. | Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. |
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| 13. | Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. |
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| 14. | Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. |
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| 15. | Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. |
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| 16. | Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. |
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| 17. | Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. |
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| 18. | Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. |
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| 19. | As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. |
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| 20. | As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. |
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| 21. | Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. |
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| 22. | But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. |
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| 23. | Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. |
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| 24. | Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. |
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| 25. | Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. |
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| 26. | Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind. |
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| 27. | Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. |
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| 28. | Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me. |
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| 29. | Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. |
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| 30. | Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. |
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| 31. | Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. |
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| 32. | Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. |
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| 33. | Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. |
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| 34. | Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. |
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| 35. | 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. |
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| 36. | Force always attracts men of low morality. |
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| 37. | Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. |
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| 38. | God always takes the simplest way. |
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| 39. | God does not play dice. |
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| 40. | God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. |
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| 41. | Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. |
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| 42. | Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. |
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| 43. | He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. |
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| 44. | He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. |
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| 45. | He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. |
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| 46. | Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! |
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| 47. | Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. |
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| 48. | I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. |
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| 49. | I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. |
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| 50. | I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. |
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| 51. | I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. |
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| 52. | I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. |
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| 53. | I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. |
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| 54. | I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. |
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| 55. | I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. |
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| 56. | I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. |
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| 57. | I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones. |
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| 58. | I have just got a new theory of eternity. |
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| 59. | I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. |
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| 60. | I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. |
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| 61. | I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. |
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| 62. | I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. |
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| 63. | I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. |
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| 64. | I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world. |
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| 65. | I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. |
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| 66. | I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. |
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| 67. | I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details. |
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| 68. | I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details. |
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| 69. | If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. |
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| 70. | If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. |
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| 71. | If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. |
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| 72. | If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? |
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| 73. | If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. |
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| 74. | If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. |
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| 75. | Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. |
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| 76. | Imagination is more important than knowledge. |
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| 77. | 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. |
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| 78. | In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. |
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| 79. | Information is not knowledge. |
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| 80. | Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. |
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| 81. | Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. |
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| 82. | Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. |
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| 83. | Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? |
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| 84. | It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. |
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| 85. | It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. |
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| 86. | It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. |
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| 87. | It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. |
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| 88. | It is only to the individual that a soul is given. |
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| 89. | It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. |
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| 90. | It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. |
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| 91. | It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. |
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| 92. | It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. |
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| 93. | It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. |
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| 94. | It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. |
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| 95. | Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. |
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| 96. | Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will. |
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| 97. | Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. |
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| 98. | Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
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| 99. | Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. |
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| 100. | Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. |
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| 101. | Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. |
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| 102. | Love is a better teacher than duty. |
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| 103. | Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. |
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| 104. | Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. |
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| 105. | Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. |
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| 106. | Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. |
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| 107. | Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. |
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| 108. | My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. |
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| 109. | Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. |
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| 110. | Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race. |
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| 111. | Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. |
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| 112. | Never lose a holy curiosity. |
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| 113. | No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. |
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| 114. | No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. |
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| 115. | Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. |
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| 116. | Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. |
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| 117. | 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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| 118. | On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it. |
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| 119. | Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. |
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| 120. | One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. |
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| 121. | One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. |
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| 122. | Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. |
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| 123. | Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. |
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| 124. | Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. |
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| 125. | 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. |
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| 126. | Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. |
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| 127. | People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. |
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| 128. | Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. |
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| 129. | Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. |
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| 130. | Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. |
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| 131. | 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. |
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| 132. | Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. |
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| 133. | Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. |
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| 134. | Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. |
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| 135. | Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. |
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| 136. | Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. |
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| 137. | Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. |
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| 138. | Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. |
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| 139. | Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. |
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| 140. | That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. |
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| 141. | The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. |
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| 142. | The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. |
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| 143. | The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. |
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| 144. | The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. |
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| 145. | The environment is everything that isn't me. |
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| 146. | The faster you go, the shorter you are. |
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| 147. | The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. |
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| 148. | The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. |
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| 149. | The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. |
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| 150. | The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. |
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| 151. | The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. |
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| 152. | The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
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| 153. | The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. |
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| 154. | The man of science is a poor philosopher. |
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| 155. | The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. |
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| 156. | The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. |
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| 157. | The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. |
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| 158. | The only real valuable thing is intuition. |
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| 159. | The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. |
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| 160. | The only source of knowledge is experience. |
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| 161. | The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. |
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| 162. | The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. |
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| 163. | The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. |
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| 164. | The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. |
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| 165. | The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. |
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| 166. | The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. |
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| 167. | The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. |
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| 168. | The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. |
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| 169. | The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. |
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| 170. | The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. |
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| 171. | 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. |
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| 172. | The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. |
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| 173. | The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. |
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| 174. | There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. |
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| 175. | There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. |
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| 176. | There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. |
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| 177. | There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. |
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| 178. | They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. |
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| 179. | Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. |
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| 180. | To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. |
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| 181. | To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. |
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| 182. | Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. |
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| 183. | True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. |
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| 184. | True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. |
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| 185. | Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. |
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| 186. | Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. |
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| 187. | We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. |
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| 188. | We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. |
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| 189. | We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. |
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| 190. | We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. |
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| 191. | We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. |
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| 192. | We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. |
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| 193. | Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. |
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| 194. | When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. |
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| 195. | When the solution is simple, God is answering. |
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| 196. | When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. |
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| 197. | Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. |
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| 198. | Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. |
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| 199. | Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. |
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| 200. | You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. |
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| 201. | You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. |
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| 202. | You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. |
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| 203. | You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. |
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