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- Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic…
- If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you…
- I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.
- We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn…
- My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony…
- It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
- ...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where…
- There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it…
- Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
- The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
- The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
- The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through…
- When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than…
- The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still…
- Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
- Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important,…
- In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself…
- If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would…
- The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life…
- More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the…
- The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle