"Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy."
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"But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not."
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"Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism."
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"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."
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"To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it."
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"Philosophy begins with wonder."
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"The physician heals, Nature makes well."
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"In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is."
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"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."
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"The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does."
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"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
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"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing."
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"We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt."
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"Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science."
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"You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written."
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"Touch a scientist and you touch a child."
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"When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon."
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"Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work."
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"X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms."
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"Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
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