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366 Physicist Quotes

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

Ancient Between Body Evolved
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So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

Advancing Begins Destruction Either
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This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

Against Another Doing Feature
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Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.
Began Constantly System Evolving
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Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Creating Divisions Itself Naturally
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

Continuous Defined Mechanics Movement
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Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

Individuality Only Possible Unfolds
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In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Clue Man Microcosm Sense
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Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anyone Thinks Sky Limit
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Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Every time History repeats Price
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There’s more to the truth than just the facts.

More to truth Just The facts
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Choose your ground well. War is a game of geography.

Choose Ground well War Game
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A thief believes everybody steals.

Thief Believes Everybody steals
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An uneasy peace was better than no peace at all.

Uneasy peace Better than
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The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Greatest test Courage Bear defeat Losing heart
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Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself, be sure of that.

Have you Wish Be saved Be sure
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One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

Weakness Our age Apparent inability Need from
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The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

Mathematical difficulties Theory Rotation Geometrical illustrations
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Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Colour Perceived Independent variables Time
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The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

Chief philosophical Value Physics Mind
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

Great advantage Student Original memoirs Science
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All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers

Mathematical sciences Relations Physical laws Numbers
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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter

Laws Matter Our minds.fabricate
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In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

Every branch Knowledge Progress Facts
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Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Conscious ignorance Prelude Real advance Science
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The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.
True logic World Calculus Probabilities
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I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

Have looked Philosophical systems God
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

Science Some interest Great discoverers Lives
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I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

Capacity More wicked Example Man
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express

Mathematicians Flatter Possess New ideas
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... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

Great Physical constants Approximately estimated Men
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

The heart Reasons Knows not
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Men never Do evil Cheerfully Religious conviction
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I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Would prefer Intelligent hell Stupid paradise
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Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Kinds words Cost much Accomplish
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You always admire what you really don't understand.

Always admire You really Don't understand
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

People Their beliefs The basis Proof
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I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

All men Knew What others Say
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Curiosity Vanity Know something Talk
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Truth Obscure Falsehood Established
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Few friends Survive One knew Says
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Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Man's sensitivity Little things The greatest Signs
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

Man's natural Sickness Believe Possesses
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The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Last function Reason Infinity Things
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Generally Better persuaded Reasons Discover ourselves
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

You wish People Think well Speak
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Little things comfort us because little things distress us.

Little things Comfort us Distress us
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Clarity Mind Passion Great
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Love knows No limit Endurance End
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To understand is to forgive.

To understand Forgive
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