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All science has its origin in the needs of life.

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Knowledge which one does not possess one cannot use.

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Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

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Without its associated thought a word remains a mere sound.

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Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

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Science does not create facts from facts, but simply orders known facts.

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A competent view of the world can never be got as a gift; we must acquire it by hard work.

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Let us not let go the guiding hand of history. History has made all; history can alter all.

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We err when we expect more enlightenment form an hypothesis than from the facts themselves.

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No point of view has absolute, permanent validity. Each has importance only for some given end.

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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

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Every philosopher has his own private view of science, and every scientist his private philosophy.

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Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

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The aim of research is the discovery of the equations which subsist between the elements of phenomena.

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We shall find here much that has evidently been brought forward only to impress the minds of the ignorant...

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Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

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Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

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I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

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Every candid person will confess that there are many branches of knowledge about which he had better be silent.

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If belief in the reality of atoms is so important to you, I cut myself off from the physicist's mode of thinking.

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If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

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Ideas are not all of life. They are only momentary efflorescences of light, designed to illuminate the paths of the will.

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The power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

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One can never lose one's footing, or come into collision with facts, if one always keeps in view the path by which one has come.

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Generally speaking, anything that is constructed according to fixed and logically followed rules, is a product of tolerable beauty.

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Science has almost made greater progress through that which she has known how to ignore than by that which she has taken into account.

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The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

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Just as without sensations of heat there would have been no theory of heat, so also without sensations of space there would be no geometry.

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The knowledge of the development of a science rests on the study of writings in their historical sequence and in their historical connection.

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Physical science makes no investigation at all into things that are absolutely inaccessible to exact investigation, or as yet inaccessible to it.

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