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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
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“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
― Screening History
― Screening History
“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.”
― QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
― QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Unpopular Essays
― Unpopular Essays
“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
― The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
― The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
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