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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…
- I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters…
- Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
- The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
- Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
- Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same…
- I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither…
- What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
- But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs…
- [When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom…
- If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
- I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time…
- Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like…
- Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told…
- A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
- In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all;…
- What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity…
- A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
- From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there…
- The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.…
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