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One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.'
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Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
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Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
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Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.
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There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.
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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
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No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.
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Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
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We must learn to see the world anew.
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The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
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We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism.
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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.
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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
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Creativity is Inspiration having fun.
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Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
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It seems hard to sneak a look at God's cards. But that He plays dice and uses 'telepathic' methods... is something that I cannot believe for a single moment. moment.
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More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.
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To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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Imagination is the highest form of research.
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I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...