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Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
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I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
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A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
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Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
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Be a voice not an echo.
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If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.
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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
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Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
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Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
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I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
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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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Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
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The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.