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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
Topic: Acceptance
Source: None
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Topic: Apathy
Source: None
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Topic: Authority
Source: None
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Topic: Bargain
Source: None
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A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.
Topic: Cats
Source: None
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
Topic: Class
Source: None
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. Sit on a red-hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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Everything that can be counted doesn't necessarily count; everything that counts can't necessarily be counted.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Topic: Conformity
Source: None
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. 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 every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Topic: Curiosity
Source: None
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Topic: Curiosity
Source: None
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
Topic: Curiosity
Source: None
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Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Topic: Destiny
Source: None
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Topic: Difficulties
Source: None
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from
within, from one's own efforts.
Topic: Effort
Source: Out of My Later Years
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full
effort is full victory.
Topic: Effort
Source: Out of My Later Years
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We must find a way, or we will make one.
Topic: Effort
Source: Out of My Later Years
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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.
Topic: Endurance
Source: None
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It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Topic: Evil
Source: None
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Topic: Experience
Source: None
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Topic: Future
Source: None
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Topic: Future
Source: None
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Topic: Genius
Source: None
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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Topic: Goals
Source: None
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
Topic: God
Source: None
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Topic: Habits
Source: None
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Topic: Humanity
Source: None
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Topic: Humanity
Source: None
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Topic: Illusion
Source: None
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Topic: Imagination
Source: in "On Science"
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you
everywhere.
Topic: Imagination
Source: in "On Science"
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The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.
Topic: Imagination
Source: in "On Science"
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems
from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real
advance in science.
Topic: Imagination
Source: in "On Science"
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to
the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than
my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Topic: Imagination
Source: in "On Science"
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Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.
Topic: Imagination
Source: None
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein.
Topic: Imagination
Source: None
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein.
Topic: Infinite
Source: None
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