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Why must our bodies be so large compared with the atom?

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The laws of physics and chemistry are statistical throughout.

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I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

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Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does "life", but not so mind.

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An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

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The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

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If you cannot—in the long run—tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

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We never experiment with just one electron or atom... any more than we can raise Ichthyosauria in the zoo.

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Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

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The stages of human development are to strive for:
(1) Possession
(2) Knowledge
(3) Ability
(4) Being

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We have just introduced the term gene for the hypothetical material carrier of a definite hereditary feature...

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"Mathematics" appears to be at the bottom of everything, since we find it unexpectedly where we have not put it in.

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— who are we?.I consider this not only one of the tasks, but the task of science, the only one that really counts.

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The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

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If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.

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Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

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I do not refer to the mathematical difficulties, which eventually are always trivial, but rather to the conceptual difficulties.

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Thus, the task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.

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The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...

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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

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In experimental science facts of the greatest importance are rarely discovered accidentally: more frequently new ideas point the way towards them.

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Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

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Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.

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I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

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There is obviously only one alternative, namely the unification of minds or consciousnesses. Their multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is only one mind.

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Primary scientific papers are not meant to be final statement of indisputable truths; each is merely a tiny tentative step forward, through the jungle of ignorance.

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No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors … This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

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Life seems to be orderly and lawful behavior of matter, not based exclusively on its tendency to go over from order to disorder, but based partly on existing order that is kept up.

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The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

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