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In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

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I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.

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The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.

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Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

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Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

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If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

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Never memorize something that you can look up.

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Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

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The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

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I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.

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There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.

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The heart says yes, but the mind says no.

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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

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Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

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What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

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We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

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Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

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