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Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

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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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The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

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It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

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I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

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If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

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Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

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Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

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I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

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The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

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No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

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The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

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I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

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