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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone
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
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age
Languages are no more than the keys of sciences. He who despises one, slights the other
Science is but an image of the truth
Science does not know its debt to imagination
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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