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"Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order."
Law
,
Men
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
Accomplishment
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Achievement
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Peace
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."
Conformity
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Freedom
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Liberty
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
Miscellaneous
"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice."
Age
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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 into lazy habits of thinking."
Anti-God
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Books
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Determination
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"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."
Lies
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
Life
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
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"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
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"Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do."
Excellence
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Fear
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Men
"Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones."
Age
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Art
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"Something deeply hidden had to be behind things."
Miscellaneous
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
Change
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Time
"Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries."
Success
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Insults
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
Crime
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Technology
"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
Religion
"The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being."
America
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Goals
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Life
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
Knowledge
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Power
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Success
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