"It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life."
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"John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!"
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"Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations."
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"Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!"
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"History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born."
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"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses."
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"The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche."
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"How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?"
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"Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them."
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"There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table."
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"Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form."
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"The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing."
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"At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals."
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"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."
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"Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life."
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"It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it."
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"Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself."
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"The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan."
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"If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement."
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"The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us."
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