The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.Albert Einstein
When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
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I don't know what weapons will be used in world war three, but in world war four people will use sticks and stones.
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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
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