Quotations . . .
in the vein of
Conceptualism
All theories ought to
Albert Einstein [1878-1955] |
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices |
Everything should be made as simple as possible, |
...I am convinced that |
If at first the idea is not absurd, |
Imagination is more important than knowledge. |
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. |
It is not enough that you should understand about...science... Concern for man...and his fate must always form the chief interest of all...endeavors...in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse... Never forget this... |
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics |
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. |
Only two things are infinite, the universe |
Peace cannot be kept by force. |
Since the mathematicians
have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. Albert Einstein [1878-1955] Discover Magazine, August 2003 |
The eternal mystery of the |
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Albert Einstein [1878-1955] |
The only real valuable thing |
The secret to creativity |
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein [1878-1955] |
The world is a |
The key to every man is |
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...itx is of paramount importance, to recognize ...ignorance and...doubt. ...we propose looking in new directions for new ideas. ...if we did not have a doubt or recognize ignorance, we would not get any new ideas. ...scientific knowledge today is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty. Some of them are most unsure... I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know. Richard P. Feynman [1918-1988] The Meaning of It All, 1963 Lecture |
The theory of gravitation... |
...we are gradually understanding this tremendous world of interconnecting hierarchies. Richard P. Feynman [1918-1988] The Character of Physical Law, 1965 |
An education isn't |
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault) [1844-1924] |
The whole art of teaching |
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault) [1844-1924] The Daughter of Clementine, Part II, Chapter 2 |
It is in the region |
Anger and intolerance |
Honest differences are often |
It is unwise |
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. |
No culture can live, |
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. |
Only those things are beautiful |
People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore. |
There is nothing more frightful |
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The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite . . . |
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. |
I never submitted...my opinions to the creed of any...religion...philosophy... politics...or any thing else where I was capable of thinking for myself. |
Millions of innocent men, |
Creative people live in two worlds. ...the ordinary world... The other is private... this world that...creative acts take place. ...a world with its own passions, elations and despairs...it is here that, if one is as great as Einstein, one may...hear the voice of God. |
It is all just metaphysical, and in want of an explanation. |
...in 1987, a very careful satellite-based experiment...reported an unexpected excess of energy at high frequency... |
The strength of criticism lies in |
Thought |
Isaac Newton, who figured out that the fall of |
...nature's thing for geometry has gotten so out of hand, some scientists would say, that she has kissed fields such as physics goodbye for good. |
Light is the symbol of truth. |
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have |
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...inspiration (for Pythagorean philosophy) came from the order and harmony of nature...the entire universe. |
The Almighty... |
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing |
When we try to pick out anything by itself, |
Gödel's proof...does not mean...there are truths which are... incapable of becoming known... |
It is the glory of geometry that from so few principles, fetched from without . . . it is able to accomplish so much. Isaac Newton, Sir [1642-1727] California Museum of Science and Industry Los Angeles |
Ockham's Razor: |
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Poetry is always dissident... |
What is so remarkable is that
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The universe is full of magical things |
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that |
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: |
The syncretistic philosophy expounded by Pythagoras, distinguished chiefly by |
If you can't explain your theory to a barmaid, |
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine. |
The two don't talk physics much at home, she said. |
I cannot teach anybody anything, |
One thing I would fight for to the end, both in word and deed if I were able -- that if we believed that we must try to find out what is not known, we should be better and braver and less idle than if we believed that what we do not know it is impossible to find out and that we need not even try. |
This kind of structure (string theory) |
...a method of procedure would be ideal, if it permitted us to explain the meaning of every expression occurring in this science... |
Truth, and truth alone, |
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. |
Ecrasez l'infame (Crush the evil thing). |
Those who can make you believe absurdities |
Life is not complex. We are complex. |
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