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“Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.”

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Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of…

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In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in…

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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge…

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“To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.”

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Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

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Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

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“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and that we…

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If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

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Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct…

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Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental…

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The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

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for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is…

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Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

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Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

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Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change the energy,…

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One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater…

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Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

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Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be…

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But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and…

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