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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
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My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
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If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it.
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
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I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
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It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.
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We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.
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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
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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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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.
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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
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I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
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If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
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The human spirit must prevail over technology.
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The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
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Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.
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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
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The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.