"Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man"
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"The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty."
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"But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is obvious that simplicity has been a part cause of their discovery, and can, therefore, give no ground for the supposition that other undiscovered laws are equally simple."
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"Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical."
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"In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap."
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"I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry."
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"The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms."
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"If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me."
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"While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances."
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"We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician."
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"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay."
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"What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data."
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"The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations."
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"No scientist thinks in formulae."
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"How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally."
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"To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive."
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"Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic."
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"I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead."
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"Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge."
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"The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead."
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