Information is not knowledge.
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Knowledge   
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A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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Appearance & Attitudes   
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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
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Knowledge   
Mind   
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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Perseverance   
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Appearance & Attitudes   
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
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Miscellaneous   
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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Mathematics   
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Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
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Advice   
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Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.
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Appearance & Attitudes   
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
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Science   
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I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
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Science   
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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Miscellaneous   
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The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
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Politics   
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
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Science   
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.THAT'S relativity.
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I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
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Science   
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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
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Effort   
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Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
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Technology   
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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Laws   
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