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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: April 22nd, 1904

Died: February 18th, 1967

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