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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

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The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

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Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

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I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

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We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

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