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| Brilliant spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. |
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| Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. |
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| But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. |
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| But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. |
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| But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain. |
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| By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction |
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| Come with me and . . . think about the electromagnetic theory of light. |
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| Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18 |
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| Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. |
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| Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. |
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| Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. |
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| Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind. |
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| Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up. |
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| Curiosity has its own reason for existence. |
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| Dear Miss .I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript ... I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants ... keep your manuscript for your s |
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| Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom |
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| Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. |
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| Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. |
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