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- Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and…
- That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in…
- Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
- It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
- Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external…
- Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives…
- I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its…
- Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
- Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded…
- The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted;…
- It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only…
- The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate…
- My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe
- I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. These properties we can only speak of when…
- What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride…
- All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from…
- My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated…
- If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.
- Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction…
- All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to…
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