There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.
NIKOLA TESLAThough free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
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Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
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Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?
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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
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The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
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We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.
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A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
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The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries.
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Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.
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To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.
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The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.
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Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
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We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
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Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
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