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Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings,…

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Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the…
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead…
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in…
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before…
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity…
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto…
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior…
Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man…
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be…
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that…
I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle. — Gary Bauer
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the… — Norman Borlaug
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble. — Steve Chabot
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way. — Stephen Ambrose
One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you… — Seymour Cray
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight… — John Peter Altgeld
In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must… — Unknown Author
What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding… — Jimmy Carter
God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end. — David Hume
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and… — Ronald Reagan
For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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