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One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.

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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

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There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. . . . It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.

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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

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One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

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Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages. . . anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar. ' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.

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I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

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