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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
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One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.
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Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.
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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
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The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
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The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.
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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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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
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The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
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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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I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
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It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
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One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good.
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If quantum theory is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.