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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be kille...more

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If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while...more

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This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished ...more

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If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

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I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

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Racism is a disease of white people

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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinctio...more

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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal co...more

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Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blind...more

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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.