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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. … Don't stop to marvel.
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The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
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One picture is worth a thousand words.
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The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
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Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.
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I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
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There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
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God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.
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Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
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Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.
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Even a fool is wise after an event.
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My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.
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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
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Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.
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No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
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Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
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Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.
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When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.