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Perhaps the greatest triumph of the human genius is that one can understand things that he can no longer imagine.

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It is important to do everything with passion, it embellishes life enormously.

A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

People who hear of some extraordinary phenomenon start proposing to explain it with improbable hypotheses. First consider the simplest explanation: that it's all nonsense.

The most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

This work contains many things which are new and interesting. Unfortunately, everything that is new is not interesting, and everything which is interesting, is not new.

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

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