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• If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in…
• All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
• But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge…
• I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge…
• During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth…
• Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about…
• The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root…
• His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most…
• Physics as we know it will be over in six months.
• I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
• But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge…
• I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be…

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