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We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
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The Universe is a friendly place.
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The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.
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Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis.
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That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.
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Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.
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I came- though the child of entirely irreligious Jewish parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.
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Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.
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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
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Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
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Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.
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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.
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It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.
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The longing to behold this pre-established harmony of phenomena and theoretical principles, is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ...
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If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.
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Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation is also of major importance and superior to other nations and peoples. The general level of world information is high but usually biased, influenced by national prejudices, serving to make us citizens of our nation but not of the world.
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While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.
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You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.
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You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified...
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Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
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The only race I know is the human one.