"I know little about nature and hardly anything about men."
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"Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious."
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"Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth."
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"Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life."
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"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
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"I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him."
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"He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them."
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"Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal."
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"Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning."
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"But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end."
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"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
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"Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go."
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"It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic."
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"Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things."
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"It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science."
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"It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover."
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"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
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"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things."
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"The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to."
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"When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon."
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