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Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.
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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.
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I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.
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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
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The Universe is stranger than we imagine!
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The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.
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Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.
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I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.
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The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.
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Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality.
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The next world war will be fought with stones.
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The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.
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Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.
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Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
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There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.
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Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
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The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us.
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There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.
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The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.
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Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
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In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.
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What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
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Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible - and no simpler.