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"The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament."
"The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale."
"Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions."
"What is the use of a new-born child ?"
"Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to its material conditions, that is, when its law is known. Before that, we have only groping and empiricism."
"The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science."
"True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain."
"Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time."
"Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community."
"Experience alone can decide on truth."
"One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality."
"Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible."
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
"It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients."
"I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open."
"Execution is the chariot of genius."
"Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations."
"It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe."
"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."
"When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?"
