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Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry, - Author object (13)

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects. - Author object (13)

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - Author object (13)

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. - Author object (13)

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Author object (13)

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. - Author object (13)

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind. - Author object (13)

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude… - Author object (13)

I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. - Author object (13)

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live. - Author object (13)

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Author object (13)

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself. - Author object (13)

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. - Author object (13)

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. - Author object (13)

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. - Author object (13)

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. - Author object (13)

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. - Author object (13)

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information. - Author object (13)

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up. - Author object (13)

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion. - Author object (13)