At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on. |
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. |
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. |
Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish. |
Brilliant spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. |
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. |
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work |
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. |
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. |
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain. |
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction |
Come with me and . . . think about the electromagnetic theory of light. |
Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18 |
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. |
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. |