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There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

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The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know.

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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

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Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

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Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

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Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

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Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

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I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew.

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Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

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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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My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

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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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One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.

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The greatest scientists are artists as well.

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Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state.

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If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

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It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

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