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"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."
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"There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that."
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"God is clever, but not dishonest."
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice."
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"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
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"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
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"It is high time that the idea of success be replaced by the idea of service."
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"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
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"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."
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"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
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