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A terminal cancer patient`s unbearable pain is pointless; it`s as if one were to drive the dead to the cemetery in an ambulance with flashing lights and screaming sirens. Pain makes sense only as long as recovery is possible.
You only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that`s the end of you.
There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time. There might have been a time when only one man did, because he was the only guy who caught on, before he wrote his paper. But after people read the paper a lot of people understood the theory of relativity in some way or other, certainly more than twelve. On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
Me only have one ambition, y`know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that`s all.
A scientist must (...) be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That`s what makes them children.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.