Quotes 241 till 260 of 286.
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The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
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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.
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
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This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
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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.
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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