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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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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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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.