"I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say."
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"In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way."
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"Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present."
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"A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together."
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"The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus."
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"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment."
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"When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share."
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"What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations."
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"The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else."
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"Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo."
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"One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none."
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"Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty."
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"The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes."
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"Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences."
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"That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure."
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"Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories."
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"People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it."
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"It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats"
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"Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense."
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"People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get."
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