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My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if…

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We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.…
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject…
A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by…
We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world, where, like faint glimmers in the dark, we have emerged....
Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct…
I've always thought that the most powerful weapon in the world was the bomb and that's why I gave it to my…
For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is…
In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose…
In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of…
My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall…
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of…

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Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will… — Mahatma Gandhi
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'… — James Clerk Maxwell
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould
Sannyas is the art of flying... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that… — Rajneesh
Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall… — John Aubrey
I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from… — Hannes Alfven
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from… — Albert Einstein
If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me:… — Albert Einstein
Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material. — William M. Evarts
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

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