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Leo Szilard has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about…
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Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.
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A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.
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Don't lie if you don't have to.
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If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
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A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected…
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Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary…
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If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.
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Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of…
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Byrnes... was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania, and Byrnes thought it would be very…
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I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line…
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If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to…
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Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing…
— Judith Thurman
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In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your…
— Leo Szilard
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of…
— Yukio Mishima
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Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of…
— Andrew Sean Greer
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We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about…
— Thomas Harris
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