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

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The human spirit must prevail over technology.

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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious...more

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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

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Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

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Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains ...more

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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

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It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven s...more

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A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimula...more

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mys...more

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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

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The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this or...more

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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls...more

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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the ...more