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“No scientist thinks in formulae.”

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Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist, is renowned for his work on relativity and the photoelectric effect. His contributions revolutionized our understanding of the universe and had a profound impact on modern physics. more

“First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it's wrong. That's all there is to it.”

Ifs Firsts Important Matter Beautiful Science Names Simple Steps Laughing Keys Smart Consequence Statements Compare Disagree

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.”

Seems Science Discovery Related Apples Newton Cezanne

Book:The Act of Creation

Source: The Act of Creation

“There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.”

Science Asks Doubt Evidence Scientist Errors Barriers Dogma Inquiry Assertion

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.”

Ends Self Makers

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.”

Source: Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God

“What you must dare: is to be yourself.”

Self Individuality Dare Being Yourself Daring

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.”

Men Self Deities

Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors

Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors

“The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self.”

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Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.”

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Author:Chris Rock

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