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Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.
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The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.
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A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
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People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.