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Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.
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I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
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Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
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The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -only those who have experienced it can understand it.
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If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.
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Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
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Never underestimate your own ignorance.
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.
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Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
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We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
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My mind is my laboratory.
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Once you stop learning, you start dying.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
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Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.