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At the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

Primo Levi

We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last – the power to refuse our consent.
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Certain Condemned Consent Death Deprive Every Expose Insult Last Possess Power Refuse Right Slave Strength
If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one’s desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.
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Greater Sorrow Happy Misery Profound Remember Satisfactory State Time True
We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience.
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Above Beyond Experience Listen Must Personal
A scientist’s life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown.
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Adversary Always Author Battle Conflictual Efrat Form Indeed Life Only Say Scientist Victory
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
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Death Dignity Expect Few Know Men Often Whom
The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.
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Among Certain Confining Industry New Parasite Scale Themselves Thing Time Transquily
It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by way of the Chimney. (What did it mean? Soon we were all to learn what it meant.)
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Everyone Hear Home Refrain Repeated Sanatorium
Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics.
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Chemistry Exist Further Go Satisfy Theorem Therefore
Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it’s supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There’s nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.
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Anything One Only Route Sadder Suppose Trainmleave Voice
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
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Become Civilised Consider Country Efficiency Lawm Hinder Man More Weak Wek Wisdom
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one’s own.
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Honest Nothing Probably Said Sue
In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.
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Ferocious Given Glimpse History Life Sometimes State
The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
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Carve Change Erased Incorporation Increase Moemeory Often Stone Tend Year
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.
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Accuse Another Brain Contrary Crime Hurt Kidney Ling Say Weak
The principle of order in me, around me, and in the world… I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: “I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.
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Around Bud Everything Granite Principle Spring Swell Understand Watch World
At the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.
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Clarity Country Origin People Person Physics Strenuous West

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