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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein
Sometimes
Nothing
Most
Gets
Pays
Things
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
Virtue
Silent
Concerned
As Far As
Vice
Prefer
Far
Ostentatious
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
Time
Knowledge
Mind
Higher
Higher Plane
Never
Takes
Got
How
Prove
Plane
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein
God
Good
Evil
Believe
Rewards
Theology
Who
We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.
Charles H. Townes
Life
You
Age
Mind
Active
Way
Adjust
Stay
Some
Longer
Demands
However
Continue
Fantastic
Much
Use
Your
Avoid
Aging
Things
Muscles
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Edward Teller
Addiction
Secrecy
Once
Accepted
Becomes
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
Enrico Fermi
You
Measurement
Result
Made
Possible
Outcomes
Hypothesis
Discovery
Contrary
Then
Two
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
Freeman Dyson
Life
God
You
Wise
Mind
Think
Enough
Only
Purpose
Read
Another
Answer
Question
Meaning
Ask
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
War
Future
Made
Country
Few
Those
Atomic
Atomic Bomb
Steps
Prospect
Beyond
Pass
Led
Up
Mountain
Different
Us
Bomb
Last
In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
John Archibald Wheeler
Field
Find
Any
Then
Explore
Strangest
Thing
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
John Polkinghorne
Important
Creation
Christian
Think
Distinction
Classical
Maintain
Between
Very
Creator
I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence.
Leonard Susskind
God
People
Intelligence
Universe
About
Argue
Idea
Existence
Going
Whether
Created
In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.
Michio Kaku
Time
Travel
Down
Speeds
Ruled
Bent
Out
Wrinkle
River
Rivers
New
Equation
Time Travel
Up
Fork
Cannot
Einstein
Then
Create
Two
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.
Michio Kaku
War
Democracy
Science
Darkness
Poverty
Edge
Other
Side
Proliferation
Give
More
Could
Never
Forces
Disease
Against
Cut
Double-Edged
Realize
Double-Edged Sword
Us
Illness
Even
Sword
Nuclear
Without Jupiter cleaning out the early solar system, the Earth would be pock-marked with meteor collisions. We would suffer from asteroid impacts every day. CNN studios would probably be a gigantic crater it if wasn't for Jupiter.
Michio Kaku
Day
Cleaning
Every Day
Solar
Every
Asteroid
Solar System
Earth
System
Out
Gigantic
Would
Would-Be
Impacts
Studios
Without
Meteor
Jupiter
Suffer
Early
Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.
Michio Kaku
Success
Technology
Science
Wealth
Science And Technology
Live
India
Lead
Students
Leaders
Countries
Line
Were
West
Unemployment
Graduate
Graduate Students
China
China And India
Realize
Skills
Teaching
Many
Necessary
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.
Neil Turok
Physics
Picture
Our
Intuitively
Classical
Point
Wrong
Because
Quantum
Understand
Quantum Physics
Essentially
Whole
Hardest
Things
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr
Every
Must
Understood
Question
Affirmation
Sentence
Utter
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard P. Feynman
Nature
Man
Imagination
See
Greater
Than
Far
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman
God
Good
Man
Struggle
Good And Evil
Evil
Edge
Lost
Stage
Seems
Uncertainty
Mystery
Scientific
Arranged
End
Impressive
Inadequate
Theory
Views
Deep
Appear
Awe
Watch
We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?
Richard P. Feynman
Great
Physics
Result
Mysteries
Important
Important Things
Energy
Universe
Would
Would-Be
Total
Investigate
Exciting
Studying
Most
Important Questions
Were
Questions
Get
The Most Important
After
Should
Use
Therefore
Why
Zero
Things
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. Feynman
Problems
Looking
Believe
Guy
Scientist
Dumb
Just
Next
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
Stephen Hawking
Mathematics
Science
Women
Physics
Past
Gone
Active
Enough
Small
Particularly
Although
Effects
Account
Discrimination
In The Past
Against
Now
Residual
Numbers
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen Hawking
Survival
Intelligence
Value
Clear
Long-Term
Any
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
Stephen Hawking
Argue
Mathematical
Cannot
Really
Theorem
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.
Stephen Hawking
Three
Think
Our
Dimensions
Evolution
Easy
Visualise
Purely
Directly
Point
Point Of View
Equipped
However
Mathematical
Brains
Just
View
Four
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